• Armin Holzer: champion of extreme sports dies in a paragliding launch

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July 03, 2020 He tried to jump over obstacles on the roof of a moving train. But something went wrong and crashed on the convoy. Thus died a twenty year old found on the wagon of a train of the Valsugana Trento-Primolano line.

According to a first reconstruction of the accident, on which the carabinieri of Borgo and the Polfer of Castelfranco Veneto investigate, the young man would have died from a head injury reported doing parkour, an extreme discipline that consists in trying to overcome obstacles with speed jumps.

To discover the lifeless body of the twenty year old, of Romanian origin, was the conductor at the arrival of the convoy in Primolano, near Vicenza.

It seems that the young man practiced this type of extreme discipline. In the past he had already tried to get on the roof of the running trains.