A Belgian steelworker facing unemployment who hanged himself at the weekend left a suicide note personally blaming Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal for closing plants across Europe, press reported today.

"He's robbed me of everything, my job, my family," Alain Vigneron, a 45-year-old who started work at 14, wrote in a farewell note sent to his trade union representative that was published in the press.