Greek Actor Dinos Karydis warned that he would committee suicide, should his pension undergo further cuts. On his social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, Karydis uploaded a macabre picture of himself lying on a bed and looking like sleeping or unconscious. He wrote:
“If my pension undergoes further gut on 28/2, I have two boxes of [note: name of the drug]. With a glass of water I will take them all and I apologize. You know why…”
His followers on social media were quick to criticize him because he had supported left-wing SYRIZA in the elections.
Others thought it was just a “thought” shared on social media by the 78-year-old actor, in fact a kind of artistic prank to raise awareness of the drama thousands of Greek pensioners suffer and will most likely suffer more as Greece’s creditors demand further pension cuts.
Last August, Dinos Karydis apologized for his SYRIZA support after he went to an ATM at the end of the month to see his pension was “cut at 50 percent” as he had claimed.
“Today, I almost suffered a brain stroke,” he wrote in August 2016. He was apparently one of the thousands of Greek pensioners who saw sharp cuts in their pensions after the Pension Reforms.
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