Pensioner pharmacist commits suicide due to the economic crisis

01/08

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Flowers, candles and anti-austerity messages on a tree under which the elder pharmacist commited suicide.

02/08

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A woman reads the various messages written on the tree.

03/08

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Flowers, candles and anti-austerity messages on a tree under which the elder pharmacist commited suicide.

04/08

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Flowers, candles and anti-austerity messages on a tree under which the elder pharmacist commited suicide.

05/08

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People pay their respects at the place where the elder pharmacist shot himself due to austerity measures.

06/08

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Flowers, candles and anti-austerity messages on a tree under which the elder pharmacist commited suicide.

07/08

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Anti-austerity messages on the tree under which the elder pharmacist commited suicide due to austerity measures.

08/08

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Youths demonstrate against austerity that pushed the elder pharmacist and an increasing number of people to suicide.

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A pensioner pharmacist shot himself in Syntagma Square just in front of the Greek Parliament blaming the economic crisis and austerity measures. People gathered to pay their respects.

A pensioner pharmacist shot himself in Syntagma Square just in front of the Greek Parliament blaiming the economic crisis and the austerity measures. People gathered to pay their respects.
According to the police, a suicide note was found in his pocket where the elder man blamed politicians and the "occupiers" of Greece who imposed austerity measures for pushing him to suicide.