Feb 6, 2002
A man attempted suicide by TV
It was almost three hours before the cameras with a cocked .32 caliber revolver.
The bullet lodged in the left cheekbone.
Doctors said it was out of danger.
Victor Hugo Borras, 32, attempted suicide in front of television cameras from Chronicle TV because his wife, he wrote in the nearly three-hour episode that was broadcast live, had left him for another man.
What remains unclear is whether the shooting was intentional or accidental.
Borrás, taxi driver, with three children and two marriages, are out of danger, with a bullet lodged in his left cheekbone and press time hospital physicians Penna you extracted the bullet.
The man reached the canal near 16.30.
Wearing dark glasses, Borras pulled a .32 caliber revolver, cocked it, put it on your lips and with a very finite voice: "I want a camera to publicly ask my wife to return. If Lucy Fell."
In a similar incident occurred on December 3 last year, a young city worker who was killed was in financial difficulties of a shotgun in his mouth in the office of mayor of the city of Tandil in front of television cameras and journalists.
A reporter for station began broadcasting what was happening from the lobby of the channel.
The funny thing was that although police were present, no one seemed to try to deter potential suicide.
Police sources told La Nacion that waiting for a court order to act.
A week in solitude
The man said: "A week ago I stopped by a taxi driver.
She is 1.60 meters, blanquita and brown eyes.
An hour later, Cronica TV had gotten a photo of Gladys Sanguinetti and tried to convince the man to relinquish his position.
Around 1830, Borras, very nervous, trigger and fired the weapon and was struck in the face.
Last night in the hospital were his brother Mario and Norma Rodriguez, ex-wife and mother of his children.
"A week ago it was not eating and was depressed," said Norma.
"We are sure that Gladys is not going to appear, it will not come forward," they said.