Agence France-PresseMay 2, 2013 23:30
"I wanted to rebel, to rise against the misery," said Dimitar Dimitrov, lighting a cigarette with hands badly scarred from when he set himself on fire during recent mass protests in Bulgaria.
Six people set themselves ablaze in February and March amid massive anti-poverty street rallies that helped bring down the Bulgarian government and opened the way to snap elections on May 12.
But of the six, only Dimitrov, who staged his protest in front of the presidential palace in the capital, Sofia, on March 13, survived his desperate act.
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