A week after a 21-year-old woman plunged to her death during an unsecured rope jump in southern Brazil, police have arrested three more suspects and are investigating whether crucial video evidence was deliberately destroyed. The new detainees, whose identities have not been released, are accused of obstructing justice by concealing the GoPro camera the victim had worn during the fatal plunge from the 120-metre bridge near Florianópolis on 14 June 2026. Authorities say the device may have captured the moment the safety line was cut or never attached, but the footage has vanished, leaving investigators to piece together the sequence from witness statements and forensic traces.

The victim, identified locally as Maria Silva, was part of a group performing an extreme stunt for social-media content when the accident occurred. Brazilian press reported that organisers had promised participants a bungee jump but instead provided a rope-jumping rig without the elastic cord required for deceleration. Three organisers were detained within 48 hours of the fall; the three additional suspects were taken into custody on Friday evening after police traced the disappearance of the camera to a nearby hostel where the group had stayed. “The camera’s memory card is missing,” a state civil police spokeswoman told *Folha de S.Paulo* on Saturday. “We are treating its removal as a potential act of evidence tampering.”

The case has ignited debate over Brazil’s loosely regulated adventure-tourism sector. A 2024 audit by the Ministry of Tourism found that 68 per cent of rope-jump operators in Santa Catarina state lacked mandatory safety certification. Local prosecutors have opened a separate inquiry into whether the bridge’s owner violated municipal ordinances by allowing commercial stunts without liability waivers. Relatives of the victim have filed a civil suit against the organiser, demanding R$2.3 million in damages.

Forensic teams continue to comb the riverbank below the bridge, where the body was recovered, for fibres and metal shards that could reveal how the safety line was compromised. Meanwhile, the Brazilian Association of Adventure Tourism Operators has suspended the organiser’s licence pending the outcome of criminal and administrative proceedings. Police have not ruled out additional arrests if further evidence emerges.

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