89-Year-Old Greek Man Shoots at Pension Office and Courthouse

''I Won't Need This Anymore': How Greece's Pension Gunman Spent a Decade Warning He Would Shoot

For at least ten years, the 89-year-old man who shot five people at a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens this week had been telling anyone who would listen exactly what he intended to do. Nobody stopped him. Sworn witness testimony obtained by iefimerida.gr paints a portrait of a man consumed by paranoia and a festering grievance over pension contributions he believed had been stolen from him — a "ticking time bomb," in the words of a relative who shared his apartment i...

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