The jury found four of the defendants guilty of murder, three of them of treason.

Jury in Samuel Luiz case finds guilty four of the five accused for the assassination of the young man in La Coruña. Diego Montaña, Kaio and Alejandro Freire, in addition, with the aggravating circumstance of treason, while Alejandro Míguez is guilty as co-perpetrator without the aggravating circumstance of treason. Kathy, unanimously not guilty as co-author.

Montaña: “It all started thanks to me”

In the final part of the trial for the death of Samuel Luiz, Diego Montaña, who was the main accused, in a statement that lasted ten minutes and in which he only answered his lawyer’s questions, apologized to the family: “I will never get the image of Samuel’s body lying face up out of my head.”

“I apologize, especially to his family. This all started because of me. Otherwise, none of this would have happened. He would be alive,” he said in testimony in which he declared his innocence.

Alejandro Freire, known as “Yumba”, admitted to throwing Samuel to the ground: “I grabbed the other boy from behind and we fell to the ground. We struggled for a few seconds, but he didn’t I didn’t try to drown him or strangle him. I want to say one thing, I don’t think Samuel died because of me.

The prosecution defined it as “a brutal hunt”

For his part, The floor was clear at the time to define fatal beating that Samuel Luiz received. “It was a brutal and inhumane hunt”the prosecutor said, adding that the young man was defenseless while they attacked and chased him, until they finally chased him and collapsed.