Porn star Nacho Vidal is under investigation for
manslaughter, after a man died during a ceremony involving toad venom.
Vidal and two other individuals were arrested on May 29,
according to his lawyer, David Salvador.
They were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and
following an 11-month investigation, according to a statement from Spain's
law enforcement agency, the Guardia Civil.
They appeared before a judge on the same day, a spokesman
for the supreme court of Valencia
told CNN.
All three were released provisionally and investigations
continue, according to the spokesman.
Police have not named the man who died. The names of the two
other people -- a man and a woman -- who were arrested along with Vidal have
not been made public.
He said the person who died had used the toad venom before
and had wanted to experience it again.
The individual attended the ritual organized by Vidal and
the two other people, the Guardia Civil said.
Police said the incident took place in July 2019 in the town
of Enguera, near Valencia,
in eastern Spain.
The person died during what the Guardia Civil called a
"mystical ritual involving the inhalation of venomous vapors from the Bufo
alvarius toad."
Also known as the Colorado River toad or the Sonoran Desert
toad, the amphibian releases a venom called 5-MeO-DMT, which is known to have
hallucinogenic effects, according to the Addiction Center
website.
The toads grow to 18 centimeters or more, making them one of
the largest native toads in North America, according to the Arizona-Sonora Desert
Museum. The species is
found from central Arizona to southwestern New Mexico and the
Mexican state of Sinaloa.
The Guardia Civil said that those arrested carried out the
rituals on a regular basis for therapeutic and medicinal purposes.
The law enforcement agency said the practice posed a serious
health risk, but the dangers were masked by "what looked like an
inoffensive ancestral ritual."
However, Salvador
denied that his client took part in regular rituals. He said Vidal had some
friends who knew how it worked and he had taken it a few times.
Vidal, aged 46, has appeared in at least 10,000 scenes,
in a porn career spanning 26 years, according to his website. He’s appeared in
three Adult Euro-westerns: “A Fistful
of Balls” (1998), “Outland I: Beyond the Far West” and “Outland II:
Looking for Freedom” (2016) as Sandor Kalimdor.
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