Dimitra Piagkou remembers precisely the day in 2011 when she “broke”. She climbed to the top floor of her building and put her leg over the parapet. “I was ready to jump,” she says.
Her laundromat business in Athens had gone under and she was hundreds of thousands of euros in debt. That day the bank was auctioning off her home.
Greece had sunk into the most severe recession of any developed economy during peacetime. Piagkou had nothing left apart from her dogs.
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