The accident occurred when the arrival station was just a few meters away. A 41 year old woman she died in Bema (Sondrio), in the Orobie Alps in Valtellina, after falling from the zip-line of the Fly Emotion sports facility. The victim is Ghizlane Moutahir, born in Morocco but resident in Oliveto Lario, in the Lecco area. She apparently unhooked herself from her harness and fell from a height of forty meters, falling into the woods. A deadly flight, at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour, which left her no escape. Her body was recovered.
The request for intervention was made shortly after 12.30 pm on Sunday: the Morbegno Alpine Rescue technicians and the firefighters were on site, together with the experts from the Sagf of the Guardia di Finanza, who are entrusted with the investigations and to the magistrate on duty. The dynamics of the accident are still unclear at the moment. The woman apparently fell after slipping out of her harness, it is not clear whether it was due to the broken straps or some error in the attachment at the start. It is difficult that perhaps taken illbut it is only one of the hypotheses, it could have detached itself, forcing the security systems.
The Sondrio Prosecutor’s Office, led by Piero Basilone, has ordered the seizure of the implant and autopsy on the body. Fly Emotion allows tourists, via a rope suspended over the void, 230 meters above sea level, to pass from the town of Bema to the other side of the mountain, up to Albaredo via San Marco. It is the only facility in Italy that allows you to fly on two different routes, one outward and one return, secured with a special harness to a trolley, which slides along a steel cable. Inaugurated in 2011, last year it registered over 15 thousand visitors.
«It is not yet known precisely what may have happened. I am shocked and in disbelief. We are at the complete disposal of the judiciary who is now investigating. And we are close to the victim’s family.” As Matteo Sanguineti, CEO of Bema’s Flay Emotion company. «The air plant – explains Sanguineti – was inaugurated in 2011. Over 200 thousand people will have flown in the crossing between the town of Bema and that of Albaredo. We have never had any accidents whatsoever. Everything happens in maximum safety with special harnesses. I am shocked and in disbelief.”
