About 40 000 families lost their homes in Spain by the crisis

Protestants denounce the evictions in Spain

According official statistics from the Bank of Spain, in 2012, 39,167 houses were given to the banks as a result of foreclosure proceedings.

Statistics from this Bank revealed that 20,972 homes were voluntarily surrendered to the banks, while the other 18,195 were taken by court order; from all taken by a court order in around 2,968 of the cases the families were living in the houses.

Home deliveries in exchange for the full payment of the debt, amounted in 2012 to 40% of the total number of property delivery.

The executions took hundreds of people to eviction, a court order that deprives ownership from a person  and sometimes it is performed by an eviction.