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Greece rages: Dimitris Christoulas and Marios Lolos die as racism rises

by | 11th, April 2012

GREECE is bleeding. A 77-year-old retired pharmacist named Dimitris Christoulas committed suicide at Syntagma Square in central Athens. In a suicide note, he claimed the financial crisis in Greece had ‘destroyed’ him. Hundreds attended the ceremony at an Athens cemetery. At a march in Athens to mark his death, a policeman was badly beaten. Also, photographer Marios Lolos, 46, who heads the Greek Photojournalists’ Association and works for the Chinese news agency Xinhua, suffered a skull fracture while covering the protest. Other Greeks are targeting foreigners – not only the Germans who are seen as the enemy. Several political parties have promised to take a tougher line on illegal immigration, ahead of a general election, expected in late April. Greece is the busiest crossing point for illegal immigration in the European Union. It’s getting hot in Greece….

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Photojournalists for Greek and international media put their cameras down as they protest over the severe injury of a colleague by police, outside the Public Order Ministry in Athens on Friday, April 6, 2012. Greece's public order minister says authorities are investigating the incident, in which news photographer Marios Lolos, 46, who heads the Greek Photojournalists' Association and works for the Chinese news agency Xinhua, suffered a skull fracture while covering a protest in Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)



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