Mobilisations à Syntagma au cours de la semaine du 31 mars

Quelques centaines de personnes ont répondu à un appel lancé sur Facebbok, pour une manifestation contre l'austérité à Syntagma, le soir du 31 mars. Des rassemblements pareils ont eu lieu dans d'autres villes grecques. Ça a été la troisième semaine consécutive que de mobilisations pareilles sont organisées, un effort de faire revivre le mouvement des places qui a commencé en Grèce en mai-juin 2011, même si les resultats jusqu'à présent ne sont pas très impressionants.

Jeudi 4 avril par ailleurs, quelques centaines de passants par Syntagma, se sont arrêtés et ont spontanément rendu hommage à Dimitris Christoulas; Christoulas, un vieux pharmacien a commis suicide à la place Syntagma l'année passée, afin de protester la situation en Grèce.

Les passants ont laissé des fleurs au pied de l'arbre où Christoulas a tiré sur lui même, et où un monument a été érigé à sa mémoire. Le monument avait été détruit par des supporteurs du parti gouvernemental Nouvelle Démocratie, pendant leur manifesttion pré-électorale en juin 2012.

VIDEO:outburst of applause in Dimitris Christoulas' funeral

By @inflammatory_

Approximately 1500-2000 people attended Dimitris Christoulas' funeral on Saturday, who took his life over financial issues in Syntagma square - central Athens. Mourners started applauding as the coffin arrived in the cemetery, chanting "Blood flows, seeking revenge" and "People move forward - don't keep your head low - the only way is resistance again". 
For 4 days in a row, citizens have been gathering on the spot where the 77 years old pensioner turned the handgun against him, leaving flowers, Greek flags and pinning notes on the nearby trees.The incident had political connotation as it took place in a focal point for anti-austerity protests opposite the parliament and the man left a suicide note, expressing his resentment for the government and his belief that one day, youths will take up the arms against Greek leaders.

The video below shows the retiree's funeral



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Elderly man commits suicide in Athens over mounting debt, triggering rallies in the capital city

By @inflammatory_

Notes pinned on the spot where the man turned
his gun against him:"who' will be the next victim?"
"mnemonium is the murderer","it was not a suicide
but a murder" pic by @northaura

Another dramatic incident amid austerity was added on the long list of suicides over financial burden this morning in Syntagma square, central Athens, during rush hour. The 77 years old  retired pharmacist, allegedly said "I don't want to leave my children in debt" before taking his own life with a handgun near a tube exit. Passersby froze when the shot was heard. Sources said the man left a suicide note expressing his resentment over the government that left him hopeless:

Tsolakoglou* occupation government has literally nullified any chance of my survival that was based on a decent pension, to which I've been the sole contributor for 35 years without any state financial aid.
Since my age doesn't help for sheer resistance (of course without rejecting the possibility that if a Greek were to grab a Kalashnikov first, I'd be the second following) I see no other solution but a decent end (of my life) before I start searching for food into trash bins. I believe that one day, youths with no future will take up arms and hang upside-down those national traitors, as Italians did to Mussolini (in piazza Pareto-Milan) back in 1945."