Police clear Seville's Las Setas housing camp a day after the general strike

The eviction on Thursday

Police National cleared the housing camp at the Plaza de la Encarnación, beside the Setas in central Seville, on Thursday, 12 November. Europa Press put the start at about 6:00, with around ten police vans deployed. The police said in a statement that the aim was to 'identify and control' the 20 people who remained at the site. Officers removed the tents and personal belongings left there. La Razón gave a later timeline, saying the security device had moved in during the early morning and that municipal cleaning crews took over after 8:00. It also reported that more than fifty tents had been on the square, a figure it attributed to sources in the organisation rather than to police.

Roots in the housing protest

The campers had settled on the square at the end of September, with ABC giving 28 September as the date. According to La Razón, the Seville camp was one of the few housing camps still active after the Puerta del Sol camp in Madrid was cleared following an eviction in the Spanish capital. The camp was therefore part of a wider wave of protest over housing access in Spain, and its location made it a focal point for the housing movement during those weeks.

Strike and the mayor's response

The clearance came a day after the general strike of Wednesday, 11 November, which unions called to demand greater access to housing and better wages. The square had served as the meeting point for the strike events that day. Seville's mayor, José Luis Sanz, wrote on X that the square had been 'completely' cleared and thanked the public services involved.

“Services worked so that this space returns to being everyone's, that of all Sevillians.”

Municipal cleaning and conservation services took part in the operation. Their crews were removing leftover items and debris from the square after the police had left.

Timeline and open questions

The timeline below sets out the three dated markers in the sources.

The sources do not say whether the 20 people were identified or detained, where they went, or whether the camp is expected to return to the square.