Demonstrators gather in Syntagma after suicide
A number of people gathered in Syntagma square opposite parliament on Wednesday afternoon, around the spot where 77-year-old retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas had earlier ended his own life in despair over financial problems apparently linked to the economic crisis. - Responding to a call made over social networking sites, people from all corners of Attica started to gather in Syntagma to protest beneath the banner "Let's not get used to death". "The way he chose is a statement of a political position and stance. If this man had killed himself at home there would not have been such a stir, as there had not been for the previous 1900 suicides. It is an incident that we must look at among many other incidents of suicide in our country, the country of sun and laughter," the head of the Attica Pharmacists' Association Kostas Lourantos said in statements to the AMNA. Under the tree where the pensioner shot himself, the Attica Pharmacists' Association of which he had been a member, laid a wreath, while others laid flowers and notes alongside.
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