By: Osabuohien Imuetinyanosa.
Luis Suarez turned hero during his vacation in Uruguay, after he and his wife approached the place where a man was trying to commit suicide and talked to him to try to persuade him not to take his own life.
Uruguayan soccer player The ‘Pistolero’ is in his last days of rest before reporting to Inter Miami for his second season in MLS, and on Saturday he went to the 18th drop of Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones, in Uruguay, to take advantage of his fame and convince the man not to commit suicide, in an operation that began on Friday night and lasted almost 20 hours, when a 29-year-old man climbed a six-meter high tree and threatened to jump if his partner did not appear.
From police report from the Ciudad de la Costa Prefecture, the person said that “if his partner, a 53-year-old woman, does not show up, he will take his own life”. The man had a rope tied around his neck to carry out his suicide threat.
Passionate Luis Suarez gives empathetic and sympathetic talk to prevent man’s suicide
Reports also added that the man has precautionary measures for domestic violence and, according to DirecTV Sports, the tree in which the person climbed for the deadly act was located in a dune area and made the mission of rescue complicated for the rescue operation of the National Navy, as well as the negotiations that began at one o’clock in the morning, but which lasted for much of Saturday, it was when Luis Suarez and his wife approached that the light at the end of the tunnel began to break forth in Uruguay.
“Suarez, a well-known Uruguayan player, approached him and what we did was, in that time of containment, try to talk in an empathetic and close way so that it was not so prolonged, beyond the fact that since yesterday this man is there fighting for his life,” revealed to Telenoche Uruguay a member of a non-governmental organization specializing in social psychology named Andrea, who added that: “Luis approaches because he is a very humane person, today he confirmed it to me. We told him to find a meaning to life, try to get him down and feel accompanied with us.”
The Tense moment and great shock created has not been recovered from as after almost 20 hours, the man was persuaded to come down from the tree and after securing his safety, the Specialized Domestic Violence Unit of the Ministry of Interior gain control of the situation making sure proper care and professional evaluation are administered.
