In the aftermath of the assassination of Samuel Luiz in La Coruña, social networks were quickly filled with the faces of some of those accused of the crime. Those who considered themselves friends of the attackers could not believe it. This Monday, three acquaintances of the accused testified. People who reported that Kaio I asked them that they exonerated him on social networks by speaking “well” about him.
On Monday, Kaio Amaral’s name was put on the table. Until then, the accused had become one of the biggest unknowns in the case, going completely unnoticed in the courtroom. He is asked for the longest sentence for the theft of Samuel’s cell phone, in addition to the murder charge, a total of 27 years.
This morning, three witnesses appeared at the Provincial Court of La Coruña, in addition to the victim’s father, who spoke in the morning. The three called to testify were friends of some of the accused.. Someone who knew Kaio asked him if the beating had anything to do with the victim being gay, to which he replied, “Maybe he died because he was gay.”
Previously, two witnesses, a friend of Samuel Luiz and another close to Kaio Amaral’s family, but who had not had contact with him for thirteen years, confirmed that he had asked them to publish on social networks an exculpatory text concerning the fatal beating. young man.
“I told him I wasn’t going to get involved in these things and that he needed to understand,” one of the witnesses said. For her part, a friend of Kiao’s mother, who was also a friend of Samuel, also made a statement. He said they summoned her to Kaio’s mother’s house to post “good things about her” on social media..
Questioned by the private prosecutor’s office, he confirmed having asked him to broadcast a message on social networks claiming that he had no participation in Samuel’s death. From the meeting, she clarified that they wanted her or the victim’s friend to be present on the day of the incident to publish something in favor of the accused.
Involvement of other accused
He also said that these “names” Diego Montaña, whom the accusations consider to be the initiator of the attackand that he also “struck Samuel.” He does not forget to cite Alejandro Freire, the one who allegedly grabbed the victim by the neck, and Kathy Silva, for trying to push away Samuel’s friend to prevent her from helping him.
A former friend of Alejandro Freire said he broke off all relations with this accused after the events. Among these, he said he asked another young man on the day of the events: “Couldn’t it be them?” “Because I considered that they were already an aggressive group, they had already had other types of arguments and fights and I assumed that this could be the reserved group,” he said. explain.
Concerning Kaio Amaral, he stated that he was aware that he had already attacked a person. In fact, he admitted that the accused contacted him after what happened after he uploaded a story on Instagram related to Samuel’s death. He thought, from what he said, that he was trying to exonerate himself. “Perhaps yes,” he confirmed, what this accused told him on this social network, excluding the possibility that the victim died because of his sexual orientation.
“Diego used the insult faggot but I don’t know if he used it as an insult or if he hated them,” he responded to questions from the popular accusation, brought by the LGTBI group Unfortunately Corunna and in response to the request for worsening discrimination based on sexual orientation.
