(21 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27 July 2024
1. A kite falling after being cut
2. World Champion of Sport Kite, Alexander Mattoso da Silva, flying kite
3. Kite in the sky
4. Da Silva rolling a nylon string in a reel
5. Nylon string reel
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Alexander Mattoso da Silva, World Champion of Sport Kite:
“There’s no point in putting two kites in the sky and leaving them there. The fun of kites is to eliminate each other, to fight each other. That’s the combat that exists, the dynamism of one facing the other and seeing who’s the best.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 7 July 2024
7. People flying kites during a kite festival at Turano favela in Rio de Janeiro
8. Kite in the sky
9. People flying kites
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Josimar Vieira da Silva, Organizer of Turano Favela Kite Festival
“Whenever I do an event, the first thing I say is avoid using the Chilean (cutting) line, I say don’t use the Chilean line, to avoid cutting your finger, getting stitches.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 18 August 2024
11. Leonardo Durães riding his motorcycle
12. Leonardo Durães showing the thin antenna-like posts equipped with razors affixed at the front of his bikes to snip wayward lines. UPSOUND (Portuguese) “When I bent down I felt it (the line) cut, and when I looked at the tank it was all full of blood.”
13. Stamp on his vest with a campaign logo against the cutting lines reading (Portuguese) “Cerol (cutting lines) kills, this is not a game”
14. Scar on Durães face due to the cutting line
15. Durães showing a picture of his face after the accident
16. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Leonardo Durães, 35 years old, private security: “Thank God, as I told you, I’m a living proof of this (the danger of cutting lines), because many friends of mine could be here to tell the story, but they’re not.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 29 July 2024
17. Various of Kelly Cristina da Silva, (mother of Kevin Pedro da Silva, 23 years old, killed after a razor-sharp string used to fly a kite floated across the motorway and caught him in the neck) holding a banner reading (Portuguese) “Cerol kills, this is not a game”
18. SOUNBITE (Portuguese) Kelly Cristina da Silva, Mother of a victim of razor sharp for kite:
"My son’s life was destroyed by a game. Something that destroys people’s lives cannot be treated as a game. As a mother, I put myself at the campaign’s disposal to ask people to be conscious of this."
19. Detail of T-shirt with her son’s face printed on it reading (Portuguese) “I’ll miss you forever”
20. SOUNBITE (Portuguese) Kelly Cristina da Silva, Mother of victim killed by kite:
"If the line is a weapon, it’s a crime to use it, and we need this law to be passed so that accidents really stop and nobody loses their life anymore."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 07 July 2024
21. People flying kites during a kite festival at Turano favela in Rio de Janeiro
22. People flying kites
23. Kites hanging in a house fence
STORYLINE:
Kite flying is recognized as having cultural and historical heritage in Rio de Janeiro, but it can be lethal – causing horrific injuries and even deaths.
That is because people ‘kite-fighting’ use taut, sharp-edged kite lines —known as “cerol” in Portuguese — to slash their opponents’ lines and rip their kites from the sky.
Alexander Mattoso da Silva is a military police officer who won an international kite festival in France in 2014.
Leonardo Durães was caught across the face by a stray kite line.
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/400125b8faf6452895643829670ed616
Author: AP Archive
Go to Source
News post in August 26, 2024, 6:04 am.
Visit Our Sponsor’s:
News Post In – News
