A detailed analysis of clothing and the movements of the participants in the lynching of Samuel Luiz allowed the investigators of the National Police to locate, without doubt, the five accused of the crime of the nurse of La Coruña. Despite the poor quality of the images, the agents proceeded exhaustive work which they explained this Monday to the members of the popular jury responsible for judging the death. They did it second by second, frame by frame. The conclusions of this hard work are multiple and They directly designate the group of accused. The agent in charge of these investigations specified, when questioned by the prosecution, that none of the five accused dissociated themselves from the attack, nor retraced their steps despite the progression of the attack. Moreover, at the single moment when Samuel separates from them and advances a few meters helped by the two young Senegalese, The crowd starts a race to catch up and end up finishing him off on the ground.
In between, the cash revealed the cruelty with which the group acted. And he did it by personalizing almost every single blow Samuel received. After Catherine Silva first attempted to break up the fight and then pushed the victim’s friend aside, events unfolded extremely quickly and brutally. “Diego dodges him (a friend who tried to block him) and launches himself at Samuel and Lina, first attack. None of them have any difficulty climbing the steps.. Alejandro Freire ‘Llumba’ throws Samuel to the ground by surprise. Kaio runs towards the attack area, he goes with great force, he jumps and kicks towards where Samuel joins him,” the agent said as the crime viewing progressed. For several minutes and until the two Senegalese entered the scene, no one helped Samuel, who repeatedly tried to pull himself together under the rain of blows. The virulence with which the group acted meant that. some of those currently sitting on the bench have been “bounced” out of the center of the assault. This is what happened with Alejandro Míguez, for example, the same defendant who told the court a few weeks ago that he moved away from the tumult and saw everything “from afar.”
The reconstruction of the images with the help of the investigator also does not give a good day to Catherine Silva, who claimed that she had remained under a tree at the starting point of the attack. The agent claims that they all advanced several meters behind Samuel, until leaving him already dying at the foot of the sidewalk. As proof, they showed not only the images of the fight, but also images of the following minutes, where we see the accused walking down the street without taking their eyes off the place where they had left the victim. Then there is a point “where they separate”. Some get into a taxi and others continue walking.
The technique for identifying the people involved was based, according to information from the police interviewed by the defense, on the viewing of security cameras which recorded the lynching, which were cross-referenced with the statements of witnesses from the morning. The defendants’ lawyers tried to cast doubt on the identification of the suspects.relying on the poor quality of the recordings. “When you do a viewing like this, you have to see the gestures and everything you can see, like the volume of the jackets,” the police officer defended himself about his work.
Photographs “with the gesture of cutting the neck”
Equally telling, in today’s statements, was the result of the cell phone spills of those involved. Concerning Diego Montaña, a physical movement is confirmed that night, a movement of the area, and also queries followed in local newspapers. There are also calls with everyone involved, between July 3 and 5. Concerning the conversations directly linked to the events, with one of the convicted minors, the minor says that “everything is deleted” and Diego replies “well, I hope nothing happens”. In Montaña’s cell phone, the police also discovered photographs of the young man with weapons of different types, with a Taser gun, a balaclava and a large machete. In some of them he appears hugging his girlfriend Kati. In others, he makes a gesture “like cutting one’s neck.” She also donned a balaclava and took a photo of herself with a machete in one hand and a clenched fist in the other.
