Paraguay: he's beaten with his girlfriend and ripped his eyes with his own hands

Ugo Leonardo Da Costa Jardim, 34, played Wednesday a psychotic episode that shook Ciudad del Este (Paraguay). Discouraged, the neighbors still can not understand what happened to this medical student of Brazilian origin who, around 10 am in the morning, stopped in the middle of the street, was undressed and ripped both eyes with his own hands.

As explained by his close entourage, the man was coming from San Pablo and was in Paraguay studying medicine. He was very religious, so that morning he confessed to the chapel of San Blas and when something came out, it happened. Standing on Oscar Rivas Ortellado Avenue, he began to undress. Then he knelt, raised his arms and planted his fingers in his left eye to tear it. Then he threw it on the asphalt.

"He commented on a partner who ended a relationship and he was very sad," said the doctor who looked after him.

The specialists who attended later do not understand how he could bear the pain, since the man did not stop there and continued with the right. He could not get him out, so he started to "attack" his badual organs, tried to tear his bads out. It was at this moment that the neighbors of the place intervened and managed to control it. They called police and firefighters, who quickly transferred him to the capital's trauma hospital.

Julio César Sosa, head of the first police station in Ciudad del Este, told local media that witnesses said Da Costa Jardim would be there the day before. He arrived by motorbike on the square in front of San Blas Cathedral and went inside to confess to the priest.

Father Milciades Acuña received him. Then Ugo left but left all his belongings in the parking lot. In addition to the bike and his helmet, there was also his mobile phone, a bunch of keys, sunglbades and a wallet with his documents. Inside, there were 40,000 Guaranies and 100 US dollars. The next day, he returned to the place and attacked.

At the hospital, the doctor Federico Schrodel visited him and badured that the eye extraction was almost surgical. "It happened without both eyes, it's the first time we see self-mutilation, as painful as it is, which is strange because it does not seem to have responded to the pain. at that time, "he told local radio stations 970, 10:00 AM and R800 AM.

On the motive of this episode, he said: "There could be a psychiatric illness, but he is not able to say it.He is sedated, but he managed to tell us that he had left treatment months ago. "In addition, he added that he could not specify the remedy that he had abandoned because they had no medical history. . "It could be schizophrenia or a borderline personality disorder," he said.

"His companions say that he is a very religious man, coming from San Pablo, from where he came back five days ago, to a partner who had ended a relationship and who was He was very sad, "said the director of the medical facility.

Schrodel also said that Ugo was very depressed by the breakup and that the treatment he was doing had kept him from his childhood. His life was not easy since his father died at the age of five and his mother died at the age of eight. The last few years before settling in Paraguay, he lived with his uncles in San Pablo.

According to the explanations of the specialist, the man receives powerful painkillers and the results of the psychological study are expected, in addition to toxicology. Then he will be taken to Brazil with his uncles.

The firefighters who helped him said that they had found him disoriented. "You could say that it was not located in time and space, it did not have the breath of alcohol." He did not realize what was going on. He had just done, he thought to make purchases since he did not even realize that he could not see.It was very strange the situation of this person.We do not know s & dquo; He was under the influence of a substance or he was already suffering from an affection or a psychiatric problem, "said volunteer Gumersindo Verdún to the newspaper Crónica from Paraguay.

Finally, he said that despite what he had done, the man was never violent: "Fortunately he was calm, he did not resist, but he was totally disoriented, this situation was very strange because he did not even realize he had no more eyes. "

Source: Clarín (EB)