Enhanced video of Samuel Luiz’s crime involved the five accused in the process and denied the versions of several of them about what happened that night.
The first section of the Provincial Court of A Coruña hosted a new session of the trial against five adults in the case of the death of Samuel Luiz, on July 3, 2021, in which the charges request sentences of between 22 and 27 years in prison.
An agent of the National Police who wrote the trial showed before the popular jury the video of the night of the crime, which until now had only been seen at the trial in images and which is now arriving. in a version with improved images to obtain greater sharpness.
At the start of the events, the main accused, Diego Montaña, went up “without difficulty” – his defense alleges the consumption of alcohol – to the point where Samuel Luiz, then Alejandro Freire, Yumba, who knocked him down.
The agent showed the images in which the former’s girlfriend and also accused, Catherine “Katy” Silva, is seen below, who He pushed a friend of the victim to avoid her defense -denied by her- and also in the recording she sees Kaio Amaral Silva who “raises his leg, adjusts himself and kicks very hard” -the thesis of his defense is that it never touched the victim -.
Regarding the role of Alejandro Míguez – who, when he declared that he dissociated himself from what happened – he clarified that “he enters the heart of the aggression and shoots to the left” and, after the first attack, he is “the person who triggers the persecution” of Samuel, who “Diego and Yumba are still a little further away. »both in front of Kaio.
“At no time do I see that anyone wants to get anyone out of there (…) all the people who were at the heart of the aggression are heading towards the second zone,” he maintained .
But from the second to the third point of the aggression, it was Diego Montaña who “start a career” in which he “leaves everyone behind” and is later joined by Yumba.
Throughout this process, according to testimony, Alejandro Míguez told another friend that “He couldn’t do anything because a black man grabbed him”.
When it ends, the videos separate the accused because “there are instructions for everyone to pass through each of the streets”, even if the national police see a “unity of action”, both during the attack and later when in a park .
He claims that “all” the accused were at the “heart of the attack”
The National Police agent who participated in the investigation into the fatal beating of Samuel Luiz, by viewing images of the events, identified “all” the accused at the “heart of aggression” to young people, although with different levels of participation.
“They are all behind Samuel,” he emphasized to deny that any of them separated at any point during the trip along the seafront, as Alejandro MR claims, or that the one of them tried to separate, as Catherine SB or the defense also argued. of Kaio ASC maintains.
From the beginning, before the arrival of the Senegalese who They tried to help the deceased, He said there were no “gestures to separate” so as not to be attacked. This in response to the prosecutor’s questions regarding the arguments of certain defenses on the reason for the presence of their clients and their intervention.
“They are all there, some inside and some outside,” answered, to the question of the prosecutor of the ongoing trial at the Provincial Court of A Coruña, if “in this group of attacks” against the victim, in the early morning of July 3, 2021, they were “at all times” the accused .
Four defendants recorded themselves with weapons and chanting “fucking fags”
The four youths accused of Samuel Luiz’s crime appeared in their own music video with a knife in which they sang a song whose lyrics included “fucking fags” and continually repeated “hit it hard.”
A National Police agent who analyzed images from some cameras in the area and also examined information from the phone of one of the accused, Kaio Amaral Silva, made a statement this Thursday.
On his cell phone was a video clip of a trap song featuring one of the juveniles convicted in this case and in which the four defendants in this trial appear with different weapons, such as a switchblade knife, a butterfly knife, a machete and a bat.
This document, from the end of April, has the continuous refrain “give it hard” and includes in the lyrics several violent questions such as “if I catch you I will wake you up”, “give it hard you will go”. on the ground”, “If they catch you, your luck will run out” or “solve it with blows”.
One of the stanzas contains “Damn fags, they talkin’ fake“, which is precisely one of the issues addressed in this trial, since two of the defendants, Diego Montaña and Catherine Silva, are accused of the aggravating circumstance of having attacked the victim because of her sexual orientation.
The defenses insisted during the hearing that the video had been recorded months before the events and that the musical genre includes these types of problems which, according to them, are not linked to the attitude of the accused.
