It’s an image that some have said crystallizes the despair felt across Greece, a country in the grips of a spiraling financial crisis.Giorgos Chatzifotiadis, an elderly man in Thessaloniki, sat down in front of a crowd and cried last Friday after waiting for hours in front of numerous banks to withdraw cash, but was unable to do so. Chatzifotiadis was among many pensioners who aimed to take out money on the fifth day of the bank closures, after hundreds of branches had reopened for those without bank cards to withdraw 120 euros.Read full article
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