After six days of deliberation by the popular jury, we finally found out this Saturday morning. the sentence of the trial for the murder of Samuel Luizthe young man who was brutally beaten in La Coruña in 2021, which ended his life. Four of five accused in the murder were found guilty. In addition, the aggravating circumstance of treason is added to the judgment of Diego Montaña, Kaio Amaral and Alejandro Freire, while Alejandro Míguez is guilty as an accomplice to the crime. The journalist Jose Luis Tora breaks down the sentence keys in this video.
Length of trial
First of all, it highlights the duration of trialwho was lying down more than a month and the deliberation was extended six days. ANDThe popular jury closed its deliberations at 5:30 p.m. this Monday, but it was not until this Saturday that the verdict was known.
The popular jury was composed of nine members who had to answer 115 questionswhich led to the following result: Diego Montaña and Alejandro Freire were accused and, by the popular jury, directly condemned, for being responsible for the malicious assassination. “It’s a decision taken unanimously,” explains the LaSexta journalist.
In the case of Kaio Amaral, There was not unanimity, but a majority: “Seven votes for and, furthermore, they include the crime of theft with force of the terminal”. And, remember, during the attack, he took the opportunity to steal her cell phone, which he then tried to resell for 100 euros.
For his part, Alexandre Miguezwas considered accomplice of this attack, since he was not part of the “aggressive core”, but “he was present when they inflicted the fatal beating on him”.
Come homophobia
The popular jury sees it as a clear case of homophobia. As they determined, Mountain Diego The attack on Samuel Luiz began because of “animosity felt towards the LGTBI community“, details journalist José Luis Torá in this video, because when they threw themselves at him, they did so while shouting “faggot”.
What happens to those who have been detained?
Some of those convicted for the crime of Samuel Luiz were already in prison, but following the publication of the verdict, will their situation change? According to the LaSexta journalist, it is “very difficult for this to change”, even if there is a “dissonant element”. This is the case of Miguezwho is on provisional release and, until the sentence is final, He won’t go to prison. At least “predictably”, underlines Torah, who reports that “It will only do so if the parties request it.“.
As he has always been at the disposal of Justice, it is “difficult” for him to “go directly into prison” at the moment, he explains.
Mitigating factors fall
Some of those accused of the crime of Samuel Luiz They stated that they were under the influence of alcohol and drugs, two circumstances which are included in Article 66 of the Penal Code as mitigating circumstances. This is the case of Alejandro Freire and Diego Montaña.
However, the popular jury ruled against them and determined that absolutely all mitigating factors are removed. That’s to say ““There is no alcohol or drugs.”neither one nor the other “no paranoid episode who can cover up this crime with homophobic accents”, José Luis Torá concludes the analysis of the keys to the sentence of the trial for the assassination of Samuel Luiz.
