Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas: Instructor charged over 21yo’s death plunge in sick stunts years earlier
WATCH: Video has emerged of sickening stunts performed by a jump instructor years before he and two others were accused of throwing a woman off a bridge to her death after failing to attach a safety line.
Video has emerged of sickening stunts performed by a jump instructor years before he and two others were accused of throwing a young woman off a bridge to her death after allegedly failing to attach a safety line.
In one he is seen leaping off a bridge with a young child in his arms, while in another what looks to be a live person in a body bag is launched over the edge.
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, died on Saturday after her bungee jump off the Ponte de Esqueleto or “Skeleton Bridge” in Limeira, Brazil went tragically wrong, with the horrific incident caught on camera and shared widely on social media.
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Seconds after she is tossed from the bridge, voices can be heard in the background of the video shouting: “the rope, people, the rope!”.
Luis Felipe Feliciano Egoroff, 32, Maicon Fernandes Cintra, 42, Vitor de Freitas Gonçalves, 27, have each been charged with homicide with implied malice over the incident.
Mr Egoroff’s Instagram account, which now appears to have been shut down, included dozens of videos of death-defying stunts, some of which have been condemned as irresponsible in light of recent events.
Footage from 2023 showed him holding a smiling child who looks to be about five-years-old with one hand and a rope in the other as he runs over the edge of a bridge before the pair plummet towards the ground.
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In another video posted to his Instagram page four years ago, two men could be seen hurling what looks like a body bag with a live person inside off the bridge. It had the chilling title: “Disposing of a body”.
In other vision he can be seen doing backflips off the bridge.
During police interviews Mr Egoroff said he earned about AUD$50 per jump.
In a police interview obtained by news station on EPTV, Mr Egoroff and Mr Cintra admitted they were responsible for setting up the rope system on the day Ms De Freitas died but told investigators they could not remember how responsibilities had been divided on the day.
He insisted equipment checks were carried out “jointly” and when asked who was responsible for the final safety checks for jump, he told police: “I can’t remember.”
He also could not explain how the GoPro Ms De Freitas had been carrying had disappeared.
Earlier Rafael Gomes dos Santos, a lawyer representing the three men, said that rope jumping is not regulated, but it is also not prohibited. He said around 100 people attended Saturday’s jumping event and those involved had been practising the sport for years without accidents.
