Austerity suicides in Spain, Italy, Greece
Third austerity suicide in Spain since October
Fiona Govan, www.telegraph.co.uk | November 29, 2012
“A desperate 59-year-old Spanish man facing eviction from his home has committed suicide, the third such death since October amid rising public outrage over repossessions…
“…An estimated 400,000 home owners have been evicted since the start of Spain’s economic crisis in 2008…”
Some judges and police officers are refusing to participate in further evictions.
Italian businessman becomes country’s 25th ‘austerity suicide’ of the year
by Nick Squires, www.telegraph.co.uk | April 30, 2012
“An Italian businessman who was depressed over the failure of his construction company has taken his own life, in the country’s 25th such “austerity suicide” this year….
“It was the latest of a series of suicides that have alarmed politicians, economists and social welfare groups in Italy, as austerity measures introduced by the unelected technocrat government of Mario Monti hit home…”
Austerity suicide: Greek pensioner shoots himself in Athens
By Paul Anast, Athens and Nick Squires, www.telegraph.co.uk | April 4, 2012
“A cash-strapped Greek pensioner who said he feared having to “scrounge for food” shot himself dead in Athens’ main square in the latest in a series of suicides and attempted suicides triggered by European austerity measures…
“Greece’s fifth consecutive year of recession has been worsened by drastic cuts to public services, pensions and salaries and higher taxes, which were introduced in response to the demands of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in exchange for financial bail-outs…”
“to blame everything except themselves”??
The international bankers and their government dumped all over them.
Regarding difficult situation in Spain, we’ve started a book project on the issue. What we have in mind for this book is an approach to the financial crisis from the point of view of 4 family members. We want to show how all generations ( not only the working class) have been affected by this situation. We’re not trying to give miraculous tips on how to cope with the crisis. It’s more of a phsychological approach on it. We want to show how this economic crisis, from the moment it started up to now, has caused many mental distress in spanish population due to the extreme conditions some families are exposed to and the consequences of all of it. Once we expose these problems in detail, we will proceed to tell the way they force themselves and help each other to overcome this mental distress as they come to understand it’s the main cause of them getting stuck. This way, we’ll show (based on real life stories) how some people decide to struggle and find a solution and others decide to give up, to blame everything except themselves and to reach extreme actions. To sum up, it will tell the traces of the crisis from its beginning up to now on 4 lives and how they manage to psychologically cope with it. With this book we hope to help people who are lost in similar situations and don’t find the way to overcome them by showing them these real life-based stories. Then, we also want people all over the world to understand better the situation spain is in right now.
We thank all the interest readers of this reply can show to our project.
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