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 ATHENS — A 77-year-old Greek pensioner distraught over his financial state shot himself in the head in the capital’s busy main square near Parliament on Wednesday morning. “I don’t want to leave debts to my children,” he shouted before pulling the trigger, witnesses said. 
  
 The location, Syntagma Square, is a focal point for frequent public demonstrations and protests. It was full of commuters using the nearby metro station when the man killed himself, around 9 a.m. Shocked witnesses told state television that the man positioned himself under a tree, cried out and fired. 
  
 The local news media identified the man as Dimitris Christoulas, a retired pharmacist, and said he left a note saying he could not face the prospect “of scavenging through garbage bins for food and becoming a burden to my child.” The police did not immediately confirm the existence of a note, but identical passages were reproduced in nearly all the Greek news media. 
  
 Three paragraphs of handwritten red text called on young Greeks to take up arms. “I believe that young people with no future will one day take up arms and hang the traitors of this country at Syntagma square, just like the Italians did to Mussolini in 1945,” said one passage. 
  
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 The suicide prompted an outpouring from politicians. In a statement, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos said, “In these difficult times for our country we must all — the state and its citizens — support those next to us who are in despair.” On Wednesday evening, Greeks held a vigil in Syntagma Square, while many posted notes of condolence and protest on trees. 
  
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 Reports said the note blamed “the occupation government of Tsolakoglou for taking away any chance for my survival.” 
  
 Georgios Tsolakoglou was a collaborationist prime minister during Germany’s occupation of Greece during World War II. Germany has drawn the ire of many Greeks in the last year, thanks to its role in shaping harsh austerity measures Greece was required to enact in return for billions of euros in loans from foreign creditors to avert sovereign default. The arrangement helps Europe by stabilizing the euro, but at the cost of financial ruin for some individuals and shrinking the country’s social safety net. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Mark Lowen: "As you walk around the streets of Athens and beyond you can see the social fabric tearing" 
  
 Protesters have clashed with riot police in the Greek capital, Athens, hours after a pensioner shot himself dead outside parliament. 
  
 The 77-year-old man killed himself in the city's busy Syntagma Square on Wednesday morning. 
  
 Greek media reported he had left a suicide note accusing the government of cutting his pension to nothing. 
  
 Flowers have been laid at the spot where he died and tributes have been paid online. 
  
 I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life, so I don't find myself fishing through garbage cans for my sustenance Extract from reputed suicide letter 
  
 Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the square outside parliament on Wednesday evening, the scene of many large protests in recent months. 
  
 Violence erupted, with petrol bombs hurled at police, who fired tear gas in response. 
  
 Depression and suicides are reported to have increased in Greece as the country introduces tough austerity measures to deal with huge debts. 
  
 'Dignified end' 
  
 The man has not been officially identified but was named in Greek media as Dimitris Christoulas. He was said to be a retired chemist, with a wife and a daughter, who had sold his pharmacy in 1994. 
  
 He shot himself in the central square just before 09:00 (06:00 GMT), Athens News reports. 
  
 Analysis The unemployment rate is now over 20% and a similar number is below the poverty line. The suicide rate in Greece used to be the lowest in Europe but it has soared during the crisis. Behind the figures there is a society that is feeling intense pain. As you walk around the streets of Athens and beyond you can see the signs of a broken society. Homelessness is on the rise, shops are closing and there has been a rise in anti-immigrant violence. There is another Greece as well - the Greece that continues to persevere, where people go out and enjoy themselves. But it is also a nation that is deeply troubled and that is likely to be expressed in early elections that are expected in about five or six weeks. 
  
 In the alleged suicide note, found by police and reported by Athens News, he said: "The government has annihilated all traces for my survival, which was based on a very dignified pension that I alone paid for 35 years with no help from the state. 
  
 "And since my advanced age does not allow me a way of dynamically reacting... I see no other solution than this dignified end to my life, so I don't find myself fishing through garbage cans for my sustenance." 
  
 Dozens of people left handwritten messages and flowers at the spot where Mr Christoulas killed himself. 
  
 One of the notes, pinned to the tree, read "Enough is enough", while another said "Who will be the next victim?" 
  
 Later, as night fell, the demonstrations degenerated into clashes as activists threw rocks and petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas and flash grenades. 
  
 Prime Minister Lucas Papademos issued a statement calling the death "tragic". 
  
 "In these difficult hours for our society we must all - the state and the citizens - support the people among us who are desperate." 
  
 Government spokesman Pantelis Kapsis called the suicide a "human tragedy" but said "the exact circumstances" were unknown. 
  
 Greece crisis in numbers Sources: ELSTAT, BBC 
  
 Suicides rise 
  
 Evangelos Venizelos, head of the socialist Pasok party that holds a majority in the coalition government, called on colleagues to refrain from "political commentary" and "show solidarity and togetherness". 
  
 Antonis Samaras, head of the conservative New Democracy party, said politicians must do more to "help Greeks escape from despair". 
  
 Drastic austerity measures have been imposed on Greece to meet the terms of a huge eurozone financial bailout needed to save the country from bankruptcy. 
  
 Thousands of civil service jobs have been cut, taxes raised and there have been reductions in pay, benefits and pensions. 
  
 Suicides increased by 18% in 2010 from the previous year, according to Reuters news agency. The number of suicides in Athens alone rose over 25% last year. ||||| A note and a wooden cross pinned on the trunk of a tree under which an elderly man fatally shot himself at Athens' main Syntagma square on Thursday, April 5, 2012. The note reads ''No elections, Revolution.''... (Associated Press) 
  
 Anti-austerity activists are planning new protests in Athens' main square, where a retiree publicly killed himself leaving a note that blasted politicians over the country's financial crisis. 
  
 More than 1,500 people gathered at the spot Wednesday hours after the suicide, chanting slogans and clashing with riot police. 
  
 Groups ranging from social media activists to schoolchildren have said they will join in the protests later Thursday. 
  
 The 77-year-old retired pharmacist chose the morning rush hour to shoot himself in the head near a subway exit on Syntagma Square _ a focal point for protests and a stone's throw from Parliament. 
  
 In the note published by local media, the man said could he not survive on his pension and expected Greeks to take up arms and "hang traitors" in the square. |||||

The 77-year-old retiree who committed suicide in an Athens square teeming with commuters yesterday morning did indeed leave a note, in which the former pharmacist explained that he could not face a future that could involve "scavenging through garbage bins for food and becoming a burden to my child." But Dimitris Christoulas, in death, has emerged not as a burden, but as a rallying point. More than 1,500 people flocked to the spot where he shot himself, posting letters on a tree, holding a vigil, chanting—and tussling with riot police, reports the AP. The BBC notes that as day turned to night, activists hurled rocks and gas bombs at police, who tossed tear gas and flash grenades back at them. Groups ranging from anti-austerity activists to schoolkids plan to gather again today in protest. And, according to the New York Times, that's in line with what Christoulas wanted. In the note, as reported by local media, he wrote that, "I believe that young people with no future will one day take up arms and hang the traitors of this country at Syntagma square, just like the Italians did to Mussolini in 1945."