Greek anger at Lagarde tax avoidance comments

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Euronews:

Greeks have reacted angrily to comments made by Christine Lagarde in the Guardian Newspaper reprimanding them for tax avoidance.

According to the British daily, when asked about the people of Greece the International Monetary Fund chief said she was more concerned with poor children in Africa who have inadequate health care and education.

She said when she thinks of social services in Athens, she thinks of all those people in Greece that have been trying to escape tax for years.

Dimiris a cafe owner in Athens said: “Those two to three thousand people that have committed suicide, for what are they to blame?”

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