ATHENS - Panagiota Kalapotharakou says she?s never seen such distress in her 25 years as a lawyer at the consumer-advocacy organization she helped to set up in Athens.
?If you look outside, the people are in despair,? Kalapotharakou said of the line of visitors outside her office in the rundown neighborhood of Exarchia, where most of her time is spent helping people with debts they can?t pay from Greece?s boom years. ?They can?t survive. What they can pay is much smaller than what the banks are asking for.?
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