Two Spaniards Self-Immolate Due To Financial Problems

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05 Jan 2013 5:39 PM by moncapitan Star rating in South by South West. 117 posts Send private message

 The latest update from the BBC!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20912616



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07 Jan 2013 12:58 PM by Harry07 Star rating. 205 posts Send private message

Just saw this Moncapiton & amazed no one has commented !!!!!!!!!

What part of Spain did it happen & are we certain it was attributable to financial reasons ????





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07 Jan 2013 1:24 PM by moncapitan Star rating in South by South West. 117 posts Send private message

It was in Malaga.

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07 Jan 2013 1:29 PM by johnzx Star rating in Spain. 5242 posts Send private message

 

This is the story at :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20912616

 
 
Spain Malaga: Jobless man 'burns himself to death'
 
  Police in Malaga are investigating two cases of apparent self-immolation
 
A jobless man in the southern Spanish city of Malaga has died in hospital a day after apparently setting himself ablaze in the street.
 
Neighbours and witnesses told Spanish newspapers that the 57-year-old, of North African origin, was suffering from financial problems.
Police are investigating the incident, which occurred on Wednesday evening.
 
Another man is being treated in the same hospital apparently after setting himself alight in Malaga on Thursday.
 
The 63-year-old was found with serious injuries beside his burning car under a road bridge, police said.
 
No other details were given of that man but, according to Spain's El Mundo newspaper, preliminary investigations indicated that the fire had been lit intentionally.
 
The circumstances in which the North African man caught fire are still unclear, with suggestions that he may have ignited his clothing accidentally with a lighter.
 
However, unnamed hospital sources quoted by El Mundo said the severity of his injuries, and speed with which the fire had spread, suggested his action had been deliberate.
 
Spanish media have reported a number of cases in recent months of people facing poverty in the country's recession killing themselves.

 

 


 


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07 Jan 2013 1:39 PM by eggcup Star rating. 567 posts Send private message

Someone I know has also just chosen this way to end his life, aged 23 and with no obvious motives.  He was in employment, and was a very nice young man.  It must be an horrific way to die - it's like an act of self hatred because there must be easier ways to go.  It is very sad.  It's such a pity he couldn't have spoken about whatever was troubling him so much - I think there's a solution for most things, but some people, especially men, bottle up a lot of these feelings and then suddenly do something like this.  In the Spanish cases it may be that financial problems exacerbated the situation, but I feel that there is more to it when someone chooses such a dramatic and painful way to die.



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08 Jan 2013 4:01 PM by moncapitan Star rating in South by South West. 117 posts Send private message

Very surprised my post caused someone offense. It was not meant in jest, purely the surreal ist nature of the what happened.

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