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Lagarde doesn’t stick to her guns regarding death threats

Now, the IMF states that the so called threats were just a few scattered anonymous facebook comments

Newsroom September 17 10:25

According to a representative of the International Monetary Fund who spoke to the Greek TV channel ANT1, all threat reports against  the head of IMF Ms Christine Lagarde, were just a few scattered anonymous facebook comments by Greeks a few years ago.

At that time, according to the report, it was considered necessarily to increase the security measures for Ms Lagarde. Further sources also mention that while she was making ​​derogatory references to Greece, the number of the comments that she received reached the 10.000.

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The references of Ms Lagarde regarding personal life threats were published last Friday by the Financial Times, while she was asked about Greece.

The letter of the Greek Minister of Justice Mr. Charalabos Athanasiou requesting clarification on the allegations made by Ms Lagarde,has already reached to Washington.

Finally, Ms Christine Lagarde is currently on tour in Japan and afterwards she is expected to visit Australia, which means that she will deal with the issue occurred by her sayings at list in two weeks time.

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