A man took his eyes in the street "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

A 34-year-old Brazilian resident in Paraguay, stripped in the street, tried to steal his bads and, after omitting, He removed his eyes with his hands.

The event, starring Ugo Leonardo da Costa Jardim, took place Wednesday in the Juan E. O. Leary neighborhood, better known as the Catedral district, in Ciudad del Este.

According to reports, the man reportedly left the San Blas chapel in this city at around 10:20 am to undress on Oscar Rivas Ortellado Avenue and Curupayty Avenue. Then he knelt, raised his hands to the sky and began to tear his left eye. He completely removed the eyeball with the optic nerve. Then he continued with the right. At that moment, pbaders-by intervened, but it was late: He had also gone out.

The head of the first police station in Ciudad del Este, Julio César Sosa, said that according to witnesses, Da Costa Jardim arrived a day earlier by motorbike on the square in front of the cathedral of San Blas and entered the city. 39; inside. confess with the priest.

Father Milciades Acuña attended him. Ugo left but left all his belongings in the car park: the bike, the helmet, his mobile phone, a bunch of keys, sunglbades and a wallet with documents.

Early versions of some media reported that the man would have committed such an act because I've had hallucinations and I've seen ghosts. However, the Paraguayan media reported on the basis of interviews with witnesses and friends that it was because of the depression that provoked have finished with his girlfriend and most likely to be under the influence of a psychotropic substance.

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The doctor Federico Schrodel, who attended, said that the extraction was almost surgical. "It happened without both eyes.This is the first time we have seen a self-mutilation.The strange thing is that it did not seem to react to the pain at this time" , he said.

"His companions say that he is very religious, he comes from San Pablo, from where he came back five days ago.. He told a partner who had ended a relationship and that he was very sad, He kept the director of the medical establishment where he was being treated.

As we know, Da Costa Jardim is a medical student and has no father or mother: both died when he was a boy.