Recounting how he had gone from bank to bank in a futile attempt to collect his wife’s pension, Mr Chatzifotiadis said when he was told at the fourth “that I could not get the money, I just collapsed”.
Both he and his wife, like many Greeks in the north of the country, had spent several years in Germany where he “worked very hard” in a coal mine and later a foundry.
And it is from Berlin, which has been blamed by many in Greece for its hardline stance in demanding the government impose more austerity measures for fresh international aid, that Mr Chatzifotiadis is receiving his wife’s pension.
“I see my fellow citizens begging for a few cents to buy bread,” he said.
“I see more and more suicides.
“I am a sensitive person. I cannot stand to see my country in this situation.
“Europe and Greece have made mistakes. We must find a solution.”



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