Yanis Varoufakis accuses creditors of terrorism ahead of Greek referendum

Finance minister's rhetoric, arguing that troika is instilling fear in people, comes as Greece prepares to vote on country's future in eurozone

Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek finance minister, has accused the country's creditors of terrorism, in an interview published on Saturday.

"What they're doing with Greece has a name: terrorism," Varoufakis told Spain's El Mundo. "What Brussels and the troika want today is for the yes [vote] to win so they could humiliate the Greeks. Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people. And spreading fear is called terrorism."

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