{"id":11813,"date":"2012-04-09T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2012-04-09T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:22:07","slug":"greece-clash-after-service-for-man-who-shot-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/04\/greece-clash-after-service-for-man-who-shot-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: Clash after service for man who shot self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/greece-popup-v2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11814\" title=\"greece-popup-v2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/greece-popup-v2.jpg?resize=490%2C326\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>By DEMETRIS NELLAS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>ATHENS, Greece<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators badly beating a policeman in Athens and stealing his bulletproof vest and other equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Dimitris Christoulas, 77, shot himself Wednesday in the Greek capital&#8217;s Syntagma Square. He left a note blaming politicians for his financial woes and calling on &#8220;young people&#8221; to kill their elected leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Greece is in economic crisis, and the government has pursued austerity measures that have angered the public. Hundreds attended Christoulas&#8217; memorial service Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A police official said the policeman attacked afterward suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The official did not give his name in line with agency rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/2012-04\/D9U058SO0.htm\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece A protest that followed a memorial service for a retired pharmacist who committed suicide has turned violent, with some demonstrators..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,43],"tags":[229,335,197,347],"class_list":["post-11813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-media-culture","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-greece","tag-imperialism","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/greece-popup-v2_11813_93dfd.jpg?fit=650%2C433&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}