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[quote=GROWTHRING,461866]"This is a human tragedy," government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis said as politicians in parliament decried the death. Acts of suicide have been instrumental in the past in provoking popular protest. A Tunisian vegetable seller triggered the start of the so-called "Arab Spring" by setting himself on fire in December 2010. Witnesses said the man put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger after yelling out: "I have debts, I can't stand this anymore." Another passerby told Greek television the man said "I don't want to leave my debts to my children." A suicide note found in his coat pocket blamed politicians and financial troubles for driving him to take his life, police said. The government had "annihilated any hope for my survival and I could not get any justice. I cannot find any other form of struggle except a dignified end before I have to start scrounging for food from the trash"," the note said. DIGNIFIED The president of the pharmacists' union in the broader Attica region, Costas Lourantos, said he recalled meeting the man several years ago and was struck by his dignified manner. "When dignified people like him are brought to this state, somebody must answer for it," said Lourantos. "There is a moral instigator to this crime - which is the government that has brought people to such despair." [/quote]
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