Death in rope jumping in SP: see what arrested instructors said
Three instructors were arrested after the death of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, aged 21, which occurred last Saturday (13), at Ponte do Esqueleto, in Limeira (SP).
Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, Maicon Fernandes Cintra and Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves presented their versions to the São Paulo Civil Police, and were charged with homicide with possible intent, after the victim was thrown from the structure without the safety rope.
Subsequently, the court ordered the preventive detention of the three during a custody hearing.
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"It was a fatality", says instructor
In his statement, Luis Felipe classified what happened as a "fatality" and stated that the team has been working in the area for around a year.
According to him, rope jumping does not have specific regulations in Brazil, which eliminates the need for formal authorizations, depending only on the experience of the instructors.
Felipe reported that all the previous jumps of the day were inspected and that he cannot understand what happened at the time of the accident. "It's something that we still don't understand," he told the police.
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Lapses in the safety check
Maicon Fernandes, also responsible for the technical operation, stated that the equipment used has the capacity to support more than two tons.
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When asked about the absence of the rope, Maicon stated that he did not understand how he did not notice the error before the throw. The instructor was unable to specify whether the final responsibility for checking that specific jump was his or Felipe's.
Vitor de Freitas, who helped launch the victim in the modality known as "aviãozinho", declared that his role was only to equip clients and help with the initial push.
He stated that the procedure for placing the rope is standard for all sports and that the team had never recorded accidents before.
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The dynamics of the accident
The investigation indicates that Maria Eduarda would perform the first jump of the "little plane" modality of the day, in which the practitioner is lifted and thrown by the instructors.
Audiovisual records provided by witnesses confirm that the young woman was thrown into a free fall from a height of approximately 30 meters, without any connection to the rope system.
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The delegate responsible for the case considered that those involved assumed the risk of causing death by not adopting essential precautions in a high-risk activity.
The court converted the arrest into preventative arrest, based on the dangerousness of the conduct and the need to guarantee public order.
The case remains under investigation by the Limeira Sectional Police Station.
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Source: CNN