Spanish fury as holiday protest descends into chaos after homeowner brutally evicted

Spanish police arrest a protester (GENERIC) (Image: Getty) An Austrian mother and her daughter were arrested by police after trying to stop developers building holiday flats on their land in Spain . The Wesenauer family bought their finca in Campoamor in 1996, believing they owned all of the surrounding land under the original title deeds. However, four years later they were told they could lose a large part of their land under Valencian LRAU planning laws.

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