Paris Match photographs of Greece Finance Minister Varoufakis in Athens home create firestorm on social media

Photographs of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in his beautiful Athens home in a French celebrity magazine caused a storm on social media on Friday as his ministry admitted it might raid the country's social security funds to stave off bankruptcy.

Varoufakis is seen in Paris Match at a piano in his living room and dining in some style on the roof terrace of his "love nest at the foot of the Acropolis", while telling the magazine how he abhorred the "star system".

"There is always a relationship between a democratic deficit and a deficit of values," he added.

Paris Match also revealed that Varoufakis and his wife, the glamorous artist Danae Stratou, are about to move from their present home in a building owned by her industrialist family at the foot of the Acropolis, to a larger apartment.

The reaction on social media was instant and unforgiving of the finance chief in Greece's new hard-left Syriza government, which has described the country's financial plight as a humanitarian crisis.

Financial Times economics editor Chris Giles tweeted: "The humanitarian crisis in Greece... Un-put-downable... Highlight of the morning."