This week, the trial for the murder of Samuel Luizthe young man who was murdered by a group of people after severely beating him while shouting homophobic slurs at him. In it, adults are tried, but at the time of the fatal attack they were also There were two minors.
Both were arrested in July 2021 and April 2022 and sentenced by the A Coruña Juvenile Court to three and a half years of closed confinement. This is the measure that was imposed on them as perpetrators of a crime of assassination, following an agreement concluded between the parties before the trial and in which they confessed to the assassination, so that their conviction was definitive from the start. This three and a half year sentence ends next January. What they will have to do, like the rest of the attackers, is pay compensation to the parents of Samuel Luiz de more than 263,000 euros.
Samuel Luiz was 24 years old when a group of children beat him to death outside a nightclub in La Coruña. The police arrested seven individuals, including two minors at the time of the incident. Both confessed and were sentenced to three and a half years in prison. Today, two of the accused are 29 years old and the other three are 22 years old; but the events occurred in the summer of 2021, when most of the attackers were aged 16 to 19.
