Greek pensioner found hanging from tree in Athens over 'unpayable debts'
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Greek pensioner found hanging from tree in Athens over 'unpayable debts'
A Greek pensioner who was heavily in debt hanged himself from a tree in Athens yesterday, leaving a suicide note saying his country could only be saved with a leader like Margaret Thatcher.
A suicide note was left saying that his country could only be saved with a leader like Margaret Thatcher Photo: PA
8:37AM BST 31 May 2012
The Telegraph UK
The 61-year-old electrician and father of two, identified only by the name Alexandros, had owed money to banks and the tax office that he was unable to repay, according to police.
Greece, which used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, has seen a surge of people taking their own lives since it was plunged into the euro zone's worst economic crisis. Experts say the suicide rate probably doubled last year.
In his anguished suicide note he wrote that he always worked hard but had become a businessman late in life and had got himself into debt.
"I hope my grandchildren will never be born in Greece because from now on it won't be populated by Greeks any more," he wrote, according to the police sources.
"At least they will know a foreign language as Greek will be abolished by then unless there is a politician with balls, like Thatcher's, to fix both us and the state," he wrote.
The man was found in a small park by a passing couple near the port of Piraeus about 20km from the centre of Athens.
The police sources did not link his suicide directly to a recession that is already in its fifth year, but said it may have aggravated his already troubled state of mind.
The man had only irregular work as an electrician in recent years, a story that will be familiar in a country where one person in five – and more than half of the youth – are jobless. Construction has halted across the country and work for skilled labourers like electricians has been among the hardest hit.
The personal sorrow caused by the economic crisis hit headlines last month when a 77-year-old man shot himself in Athens' central Syntagma square in front of the parliament.
He left a note complaining that the government had "annihilated" his hope of survival, adding that he had decided to take his own life before being forced to start scrounging for food from rubbish bins.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9301782/Greek-pensioner-found-hanging-from-tree-in-Athens-over-unpayable-debts.html
Greek pensioner found hanging from tree in Athens over 'unpayable debts'
A Greek pensioner who was heavily in debt hanged himself from a tree in Athens yesterday, leaving a suicide note saying his country could only be saved with a leader like Margaret Thatcher.
A suicide note was left saying that his country could only be saved with a leader like Margaret Thatcher Photo: PA
8:37AM BST 31 May 2012
The Telegraph UK
The 61-year-old electrician and father of two, identified only by the name Alexandros, had owed money to banks and the tax office that he was unable to repay, according to police.
Greece, which used to have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world, has seen a surge of people taking their own lives since it was plunged into the euro zone's worst economic crisis. Experts say the suicide rate probably doubled last year.
In his anguished suicide note he wrote that he always worked hard but had become a businessman late in life and had got himself into debt.
"I hope my grandchildren will never be born in Greece because from now on it won't be populated by Greeks any more," he wrote, according to the police sources.
"At least they will know a foreign language as Greek will be abolished by then unless there is a politician with balls, like Thatcher's, to fix both us and the state," he wrote.
The man was found in a small park by a passing couple near the port of Piraeus about 20km from the centre of Athens.
The police sources did not link his suicide directly to a recession that is already in its fifth year, but said it may have aggravated his already troubled state of mind.
The man had only irregular work as an electrician in recent years, a story that will be familiar in a country where one person in five – and more than half of the youth – are jobless. Construction has halted across the country and work for skilled labourers like electricians has been among the hardest hit.
The personal sorrow caused by the economic crisis hit headlines last month when a 77-year-old man shot himself in Athens' central Syntagma square in front of the parliament.
He left a note complaining that the government had "annihilated" his hope of survival, adding that he had decided to take his own life before being forced to start scrounging for food from rubbish bins.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/9301782/Greek-pensioner-found-hanging-from-tree-in-Athens-over-unpayable-debts.html
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