Bungee staff ‘cannot remember’ who was alleged to attach safety cord before model plunged to death | News World

The employees of a bungee company who threw a model to her death after her safety cord was unattached have appeared in court.

Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, fell to her death in front of horrified witnesses, who will be heard shouting: ‘the rope people, the rope.’

The teacher was seen being carried in a Superman pose before being hurled to her death down a 130ft drop off the Skeleton bridge in Limeira, São Paulo, in Brazil.

Three men were arrested for homicide with eventual intent following the tragic death. 

They were perp walked to court on Monsay where they claimed there was a ‘blackout’ through the stunt’s set-up, and ‘can’t remember’ who must have attached the protection cord. 

The trio remanded in custody after appearing before a judge have been named locally as Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, and Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves, 27. 

Luis Felipe, who says he earned just £26.50 per jump, told police after his arrest that team members didn’t have set responsibilities through the jumps and equipment checks were carried out ‘jointly.’

Quizzed on who was chargeable for the ultimate safety checks for Maria Eduarda’s jump, he told police: ‘I can’t remember.’ Maicon Fernandes Cintra reportedly gave cops the identical answer.

Their lawyer Rafael Gomes dos Santos claimed overnight: ‘They’re in a state of shock. They can’t explain what happened because they’ve been doing this for years.

‘Nothing like this has ever happened.’

Videos show her being carried horizontally by her legs and arms in a ‘Superman’ pose at the highest of Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned railway bridge.

After she is thrown off, instructors look down because the camera pans to indicate the protection line still lying on the platform.

Maria Eduarda’s devastated mum Valdenia, expressed her grief hours after her daughter’s funeral took place.

She posted online: ‘That damned rope took you away from me without end. My beloved daughter, you might be gone and all that continues to be here is pain and longing. I’ll love you without end.’

In a series of Instagram stories published moments before she died, the tragic gym employee killed published photos of the representatives of the private company that organised the jump.

Ms Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip, excited in regards to the jump and sharing pictures of the venue.

‘Who was the crazy one who let me jump off a bridge?’ she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.

The jump appeared to involve bungee jump-rope operator Entre Cordas and Ih Voei, a linked instructor brand. 

Local media reports staff on the scene were wearing shirts bearing the names of each brands.

Entre Cordas’s Instagram page, which advertised ‘a jump to the extraordinary,’ was reportedly taken down after the death.

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