Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez was a hero during his holiday in Uruguay after he and his wife approached the spot where a man tried to commit suicide and spoke to him to convince him not to commit suicide.
The 'Pistolero' is in his final days of rest before reporting to Inter Miami for his second season in the MLS, and on Saturday he headed to the 18th drop of Ciudad de la Costa, Canelones, in Uruguay, to take advantage of his fame and convinced the man not to commit suicide, during an operation that began Friday evening and lasted nearly 20 hours, when a 29-year-old man climbed a six-meter tree and threatened to jump if his partner did not appear.
According to a 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 commit suicide.” The man had tied a rope around his neck to carry out his suicide threat.
Luis Suarez gives empathetic talks to prevent man's suicide
Reports also added that the man has taken precautions against domestic violence and that the tree the person climbed was in a dune area, according to DirecTV Sports, complicating the National Navy rescue operation as well as negotiations that began around 6 p.m. At one o'clock in the morning, but lasting much of Saturday, Luis Suarez and his wife approached the site while walking along the Solymar promenade, a place near his hometown in Uruguay.
“Suarez, a well-known Uruguayan player, approached him and what we did was, at that time of containment, try to talk in an empathetic and intimate way so that it didn't take so long, apart from the fact that this man has been fighting there since yesterday for his life,” Andrea revealed to Telenoche Uruguay, a member of a non-governmental organization specialized in social psychology, who added: “Luis approaches because he is a very human person, today he confirmed it to me to give him a “To find meaning in life, try to take him down and feel accompanied with us.”
The incident remained a difficult moment because after almost twenty hours the man was persuaded to get out of the tree and after he had become safe, the Specialized Domestic Violence Unit of the Ministry of the Interior took charge, providing care and a professional to provide evaluation.
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