A man has this afternoon, on the Wenceslas square in Prague tried to commit suicide by set himself on fire to cross, just as the student Jan Palach in January 1969 commited suicide out of protest against the Soviet invasion. Report this to the police and the emergency services. He is in an artificial coma and transported to the hospital.
According to the first information would be the man, born in 1964, is around 15 hours, doused with flammable material and himself on fire, declares the Prague police on Twitter. The flames were extinguished by passers-by.
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The emergency services brought the man, whose body for thirty percent of the population was covered with burns, in an artificial coma before having him transported to the hospital Kralovske Vinohrady in Prague. the
The identity and the motives of the man are not yet known. The Czech republic commemorates these days the 50th anniversary of self-immolation by filosofiestudent Jan Palach, in protest against the Soviet invasion that the reform movement of the “Prague Spring” in August 1968 suppressed.
Who have questions about suicide, you can contact on the toll-free number to 1813, and on zelfmoord1813.be.
