Alejandro FG, known as Yumba, is, according to witnesses and the police, the young man who appears at the beginning of the attack on Samuel Luiz, grabs him by the neck from behind and throws him to the ground. While the trial for the assassination of the 24-year-old young man in July 2021 in A Coruña is about to end, this Wednesday the three accused declare that they did not do so at the start of the hearings. The first round was for Alerjandro FG, who admits to having caught Samuel – although he says that he did not land a blow on him, that it is a technique he only knows “by hearsay” and that his intention was not to drown. him – and that he did it “instinctively”: “I thought she was hitting on Diego.”
Diego is Diego MM, the defendant credited with launching the fatal attack on Samuel Luiz. Alejando FG claims that he did not hit the victim: “At no time did I throw punches at him,” he declared in response to his lawyer’s questions, which were the only ones he asked. agreed to answer. For him, 22 years in prison are required for murder.
“I saw Diego struggling with another boy, they were alone,” he said, according to Europa Press. He said it happened outside a leisure venue on the La Coruna seafront promenade, where they had previously been drinking. “We only fought for a few seconds,” he continued, about his role in the attack and denying having dealt a blow to Samuel Luiz. He has never, he claims, practiced martial arts: “I would not know how to do a technique like that,” added this accused, who has pleaded not guilty to murder.
“If I had realized what was happening, I swear to God I would have tried to stop the attack,” he said. He declared himself “very sorry” for his participation in the events and asked for forgiveness, but maintained that his intervention was not the cause of the victim’s death: “I believe that Samuel is not dead because of me.”
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