Samuel Luiz’s father, Maxsoud Luiz, confirmed that his son never had any problems when he went out at night. “He never drank, he didn’t like to fight,” he explained, very moved and in tears, during a new session of the trial which is being held at the Provincial Court of La Coruña with the Jury Court . “They took away the person I loved the most,” he said to emphasize that what they did to him was “hate.” “Even a dog should not be left lying in a ditch. »
This was explained during a new hearing with testimonies, collected by Europa Press, in which, after giving personal details to some of the witnesses, the testimony of the victim’s father, who died after a fatal beating in the first hours of July 3. , started the year 2021 on the seaside promenade of A Coruña.
“I taught him values because I didn’t learn them at home,” he stressed to assure that Samuel, who worked and studied, was “his best friend.” “No one can say bad things about my son, he was an example of education.”
“They took a splinter out of me”
Questioned by the prosecutor that led to his son’s death, he said: “They took away from me the person I loved the most, they took away a shard that was in us.” “They took everything from us, like any father or mother, when a child is taken from them, they get lost,” he added.
“I am not here to judge, there are many broken families here, there are many,” he stressed to emphasize that he was not born to “judge” but to be in a church, in relation to the one to which he belongs, “to help people”. “My son had values and what they did with my son was hatred, even a dog can’t stay lying around in a bill and there he was, hanging around.” “They stole my son,” he said in another part of his testimony and through tears.
All this with criticism, in addition, of the media. “The images that are coming out are killing the love of my life,” he said of the victim’s mother. “I’m not selling my son,” he added about what they offered him to appear there. Regarding Samuel’s sexual state, he said he knew him not only by his clothes, but “by the things he found at home.” All this without questions from the defense lawyers.
An accused asked to be exonerated on social networks
A defendant in the crime of Samuel Luiz admitted to another person, through social networks, the possibility that Samuel Luiz died because he was homosexual, as explained by a witness in the trial taking place at the Provincial Court of La Coruña.
He did so in reference to Kaio ASC, whom he said this defendant – for whom 27 years in prison are required for an alleged crime of murder and another for the alleged theft of the victim’s cell phone – had told him “maybe yes”” after this witness ruled out the possibility that Samuel died because of his sexual orientation.
Previously, two witnesses, a friend of Samuel Luiz and another close to Kaio ASC’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. the young man, in the early morning of July 3, 2021.
“I didn’t do anything,” explained the latter about the text that this defendant had sent him and which he refused to publish on social networks. “I told him I wasn’t going to get involved in these things and that he needed to understand,” he said. “That we published good things about him,” said another witness.
This friend of Samuel and acquaintance of Kaio’s mother stated that she had been summoned to her home and that this accused had also given her an exculpatory version concerning certain events in which she was not present.
In response to questions from the private prosecutor’s office, he confirmed that he had asked him to broadcast a message on social networks saying that he had not participated in the fatal beating of the victim, in the early hours of July 3, 2021 From the meeting, he clarified that they wanted her or Samuel’s friend present on the day of the incident to publish “good things about him”.
He also said that he “names” Diego MM, whom the accusations consider to be the person who started the attack, and that he tells him that “he hit Samuel” and that he also talks about Alejandro FG, the person who allegedly grabbed Samuel by the arm. neck of the victim, and Catherine SB, the former’s girlfriend at the time.
In this regard, a friend of the deceased alleged, in her statement on another day of the trial, that he had separated her while she was trying to help her friend while another, from the entourage of the accused, said he told his then-partner “stop, stop.” “.
“Previous fights”
A former friend of Alejandro FG said he broke off the relationship with this accused after the events. Among them, he said he asked another young man on the day of the events: “Couldn’t it be them?”
“Because I considered that it was already an aggressive group, they had already had other types of arguments and fights and I assumed that it could be the reserved group,” he explained about the location of the defendants, in a recreational location and outdoors. where the first attack against Samuel took place. In the case of Catherine SB, she stated that she was not aware of his participation in fights.
Kaio ASC said he knew he had attacked a person before. He also reported that this 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. “Maybe so,” he confirmed, this defendant 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, carried out by the LGTBI group Unfortunately Corunna and in response to the request for worsening discrimination based on sexual orientation.
His former friend, Alejandro FG, confirmed the consumption of “alcohol and joints”. “I think that when he was going out with the other group, he started using cocaine,” he said, questioned by the lawyer for that party. Asked by Diego MM’s lawyer about the possible influence of the victim’s sexual orientation on the events, he said that the fights had been reduced “to a minimum”. “I thought so,” he said after stating after the events that that was not the reason.
Sorrows
The defendants – Diego MM, Catherine SB, Kaio ASC, Alejandro MR and Alejandro FG – face sentences ranging from 22 to 27 years in prison for murder with teaching and treason.
To the first two, the accusations accuse them of aggravating discrimination due to the sexual orientation of the victim and to the third is added the alleged violent theft of Samuel’s cell phone. The defenses, for their part, request acquittal.
“He saw and witnessed,” said Diego MM’s lawyer, at the entrance to the court, about his client that the accusations and some of the testimonies already provided during the trial place him as the person who initiated attacked her and then beat her. , with insults of “fucking faggot”.
Regarding Alejandro FG, some stated that it was he who grabbed the victim by the neck, while regarding Kaio ASC, some witnesses stated that they saw him carry his leg to throw a kick, without confirm whether he had actually done so.
This in a trial with resignation of witnesses by one of the parties and with request of the accusations that one of the witnesses, who did not appear another day, be brought to him by the police after having confirmed that “he was in France “he was taking care of his grandfather in the hospital” and that he would not show up, even though he had already been informed of the imposition of a fine of 600 euros for non-assistance. Ultimately, the judge agreed to adopt this measure.
