Thousands hold rallies in Athens after suicide

April 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Press TV
April 5, 2012

On Wednesday morning, the 77-year-old retired pharmacist shot himself dead near the parliament in the capital to protest the country’s economic crisis.

Witnesses said the man put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger after crying “I have debts, I can’t stand this anymore.”

“[The government had] annihilated any hope for my survival and I could not get any justice. I cannot find any other form of struggle except a dignified end before I have to start scrounging for food from the rubbish,” read a suicide note found in his pocket.

By nightfall, thousands of demonstrators gathered at the central Syntagma Square where the suicide had taken place to protest extreme poverty and financial desperation.

They carried candles, flowers, and hand-written notes, condemning the economic crisis and chanted slogans such as, “This was not suicide – it was murder committed by the state.”

“This is the point, to which they’ve brought us. Do they really expect a pensioner to live on 300 euros?” said a 54-year-old protester.

Clashes broke out near the parliament when the police fired teargas canisters at a group of protesters throwing Molotov cocktail at them.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos expressed his regret about the suicide in a statement issued by his office.

“It is tragic when a fellow human being takes his own life. In those difficult times for our society we must all — state and citizens — support those next to us, who stand in despair,” the statement said.

Greece has been in a financial crisis since 2010 and has relied on international bailout loans ever since.

To secure them, Athens has implemented heavy austerity measures, including slashing pensions and salaries, which have worsened the economic recession, leading to thousands of job losses.

According to Eurostat, the European Union statistics office, unemployment rate in the country was 21 percent as of December 2011.

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4 Responses to “Thousands hold rallies in Athens after suicide”

I believe I could have found a better target for that bullet than myself.

wildcat Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 5:50 am

Very true – and he woild have had free food, accomodation, health care and security. Which is more than some people have living on a pension.
Throughout the whole of Europe this is happening. And it will continue to happen unless the bullets are fired at those who have created and profited of this fake financial crisis. The money our Countries are supposed to owe never really existed, and we the people now have to suffer. It does not take a genius to see who is to blame, the Banksters who are mainly Jewish. Until people call them out it will continue. Those who deny that it is the Jewish financial criminal elite are simply lying to themselves. Goldman Sachs are raping Europe, with the help of the politicians that they have appointed.
Ok, he was old and nothing to live for as it was all taken away.

Their killing the wrong ones, they should be whacking the ones responsible. Pretty much the same deal in the US. People need to look around and whack those responsible for justUS and re-Instate
Justice, their not going to do it, and the Government certainly isn’t going to it.