Pensioner suicide, will Greece follow Tunisia?

A suicide because of despair about poverty and repression by a young unemployed graduate in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, led ultimately to the fall of the Ben Ali dictatorship.

Will something somewhat similar happen in Greece now?

This video says about itself:

4 April 2012

A 77 year old pharmacist has committed suicide in Greece, saying the government has made it impossible for him to survive on his pension.

Hundreds of people saw the man shoot himself, sparking angry protests outside the parliament in Athens.

The case is casting a spotlight on the country’s spiralling suicide rate – as Caroline Malone reports.

Greece suicide: Tributes for retired pharmacist: here.

A 77-YEAR-old pensioner named as Dimitris Christoulas, an ex-owner of a chemist shop, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning in Syntagma square in front of the Vouli (Greek parliament) in Athens. A note found on him stated: ‘The occupation government have crushed any possibility of survival based on a dignified pension which I had paid for 35 years’: here.

See also here.

A picture of a Tunisian young man gagged and handcuffed by a plain-clothed Italian police officer on-board an Alitalia flight to Tunis created uproar in the Italian media on Thursday, April 19: here.