Italy spends this week in mourning after the tragic accident that occurred in the town of Bema. A 41 year old woman died last Sunday, May 5 after fall from a zip line in the sports station of the Fly Emotion company. The victim, Ghizlane Motahirwas a resident of the municipality of Oliveto Lario, on the shores of Lake Como. The woman of Moroccan origin had gone that weekend to the Valtellina valleyin the Orobian Alps, where since 2011 it has been possible to cross the Lombard town of Albaredo per San Marco by zip line.
Motahir went on the adventure with her husband, her sisters and her nieces, who witnessed the tragedy. As reported by the newspaper Corriere Della Serathe events occurred around 12:30 noon.
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The descent that Motahir was making at that time was a kilometer and a half long and 230 meters high above sea level, a The woman unhooked herself from the zip line ahead of time, when there were just a few meters left to reach the end of the descent.
The woman unhooked herself from the zip line ahead of time, when there were just a few meters left to reach the end of the descent. It is not clear what caused the harness to come loose, although it is suggested that it was a break in the straps or some error. Whatever the cause, Motahir fell forty meters to the forest that was discovered at their feet.
The Morbegno Alpine Rescue teams and firefighters, as well as experts from the Guardia di Finanza, attended the scene. However, they couldn’t do anything to save the woman’s life.
The latest reconstructions of the events show that the woman braked suddenly a few meters from the arrival. She was suspended, terrified, and pulled her feet out of the safety stirrups. However, the investigation has yet to clarify how the safety harness was unhooked.
The first hypotheses of the Sondrio Prosecutor’s Officein charge of the case, point to an error when putting on the safety equipment at the start, which left the harness loose, or to the breakage of the straps that held him to the zip line.
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The CEO of the company Fly Emotion, Matteo Sanguineti, has declared that he is “shocked and incredulous” at the events of last Sunday. “The air plant was inaugurated in 2011. More than 200 thousand people have flown at the crossing between the city of Berma and Albaredo. We have never had any accidents. “Everything happens with maximum security,” said Sanguineti, according to the newspaper. Corriere Della Sera. The company has made itself “at the complete disposal” of the investigators and has expressed its “deepest condolences” to the family.
