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You walk down Venizelos Avenue - the big business boulevard from Syntagma to Omonia Square - it is ghostly quiet.
BBC: Greek state starting to lose grip on functions of state
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When eventually the police lost patience and fired the first tear gas grenade, the sound echoed across Syntagma Square and the crowd cheered.
BBC: Athens erupts over austerity cuts
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The suicide of 77-year-old retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas in April, in central Athens' Syntagma Square, also underscored the pain of the austerity measures.
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The unfolding saga of southern Europe claimed another life on Wednesday when a retired man from Greece killed himself in Syntagma Square in Athens this morning.
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Up to 1, 000 people gathered for another rally Thursday in Syntagma Square, which was largely peaceful apart from a few scuffles between small groups of protesters, Athens police said.
CNN: Austerity drives up suicide rate in debt-ridden Greece
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Cars honked and people milled about central Syntagma Square.
WSJ: Greece Backs Bailout
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People are protesting daily in Syntagma Square against austerity.
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"I believe there are going to be more suicides and that's what got the government worrying, " says archaeologist Despoina Koutsoumpa, who was among the hundreds who rushed yesterday in Syntagma Square to pay tributes to Christoulas.
CNN: Austerity drives up suicide rate in debt-ridden Greece
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But Greece was jolted even more Wednesday after a 77-year-old man took his own life in the busy Syntagma Square, central Athens, the scene of several violent clashes between anti-austerity protesters and the police in recent months.
CNN: Austerity drives up suicide rate in debt-ridden Greece
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As you gaze out at parliament from the office of the finance minister, the outer glass pocked by a bullet-hole from some forgotten demo in Syntagma Square below, the grim prospect is of a hard-left government vying against hard-right law-enforcement.
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