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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\nThe workers of a bungee company who threw a model to her death after her safety cord was unattached have appeared in court.\n\nMaria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, fell to her death in front of horrified witnesses, who can be heard shouting: ‘the rope people, the rope.’\n\nThe 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.\n\nThree men were arrested for homicide with eventual intent following the tragic death.\n\nThey were perp walked to court on Monsay where they claimed there was a ‘blackout’ during the stunt’s set-up, and ‘can’t remember’ who should have attached the safety cord.\n\nMaria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas has been named as the victim of the jump-gone-wrong\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nBungee Jump operators are taken to court in handcuffs (Picture: Brazilian Police)\n\nThe 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.\n\nLuis Felipe, who says he earned just £26.50 per jump, told police after his arrest that team members didn’t have set responsibilities during the jumps and equipment checks were carried out ‘jointly.’\n\nQuizzed on who was responsible for the final safety checks for Maria Eduarda’s jump, he told police: ‘I can’t remember.’ Maicon Fernandes Cintra reportedly gave cops the same answer.\n\nTheir lawyer Rafael Gomes dos Santos claimed overnight: ‘They are in a state of shock. They cannot explain what happened because they have been doing this for years.\n\n‘Nothing like this has ever happened.’\n\nThe fatal bungee jump of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freita, 21, who fell more than 131ft to her death\n\nVideos show her being carried horizontally by her arms and legs in a ‘Superman’ pose at the top of Ponte do Esqueleto, an abandoned railway bridge.\n\nAfter she is thrown off, instructors look down as the camera pans to show the safety line still lying on the platform.\n\nMaria Eduarda’s devastated mum Valdenia, expressed her grief hours after her daughter’s funeral took place.\n\nShe posted online: ‘That damned rope took you away from me forever. My beloved daughter, you are gone and all that remains here is pain and longing. I will love you forever.’\n\nIn a series of Instagram stories published moments before she died, the tragic gym worker killed published photos of the representatives of the private company that organised the jump.\n\nMs Rodrigues de Freitas had uploaded a string of social media posts before the trip, excited about the jump and sharing pictures of the venue.\n\n‘Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?’ she wrote beside a photograph of an Entre Cordas banner.\n\nThe bridge was advertised as ‘a jump to the extraordinary’ (Picture: Google Maps)\n\nThe jump appeared to involve bungee jump-rope operator Entre Cordas and Ih Voei, a linked instructor brand.\n\nLocal media reports staff at the scene were wearing shirts bearing the names of both brands.\n\nEntre Cordas’s Instagram page, which advertised ‘a jump to the extraordinary,’ was reportedly taken down after the death.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
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