Man took his eyes off the street – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

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 fact, with Ugo Leonardo Da Costa Jardim, took place this Wednesday in the district Juan E. O 'Leary, better known as the Cathedral District of Ciudad del Este.

According to reports, the Brazilian-born medical student left the San Blas chapel in the city at around 10.20am to strip Oscar Rivas Ortellado and Curupayty Avenue. Then he knelt, raised his hands to the sky and cstarted tearing 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.

An apparently doped Brazilian, totally upset, tried to remove some of his body to such an extent that he managed to remove one of his eyes from the left side.

He would be called Hugo Magallanes, according to the police. pic.twitter.com/vgkj4a71U3

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Early versions of some media reported that the man would have committed such an act because he had hallucinations and had seen ghosts. However, the Paraguayan media reported on the basis of interviews with witnesses and friends who it was because of the depression that had caused him after finishing with his girlfriend and very likely to be under the influence of a psychotropic substance.

"You could say that it was not located in time and space, that it did not have any alcohol, that it was He did not realize what he had just done, he thought that he was shopping because he did not even realize that he could not see it. It was very rare the situation of this person. We do not know whether he was under the influence of a substance or whether he was already suffering from a psychiatric problem, "said volunteer firefighter Gumersindo Verdun to the newspaper Crónica de Paraguay.

"He arrived without both eyes. This is the first time we've seen a self-mutilation. The strange thing is that he did not seem to react to the pain at that time, "said Dr. Federico Schrodel.

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