Families squat Spanish apartments

High unemployment in Spain is seeing families turn squatters top cope with the financial downturn.

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Published 16 November 2011 1:02pm

Updated 26 August 2013 9:20am

Source: CNN, SBS

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Almost five million people are out of work in Spain.

Many people in need are resorting to dramatic measures to get by - in Barcelona, the 'indignados' protesters have squatted half-built apartments, with hard-hit families taking up the apartments for themselves.

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