He assured, when questioned by the prosecutor, that he barely remembered the details of that early morning of July 3, 2021, even if lucidity seemed to come to him at times when those responsible for questioning him were his friends’ lawyers . Jeremy, a friend of two of those accused of the brutal beating that killed Samuel Luiz in La Coruña, testified this Tuesday as a witness in the trial and confirmed, in his own way, that it was a violent gang: “Every time I go out with you, I encounter movements.” Although at another point in his statement he also said: “I have never seen them in combat.”
The first of the sentences was broadcast to her friends when, after the savage attack that ended the young nurse’s life, they met that night in a city park. According to the version of the accusations, this meeting was intended to forge a common alibi, but this union quickly exploded because the next day, they would end up pointing the finger at each other.
This witness was above all a friend of Diego Montaña and Alejandro Míguez, although he also knew the three other accused: Alejandro Freire, alias “Llumba”, Kaio Amaral and Catherine Silva. It is for this reason that the magistrate, during the sixteenth session of a trial underway before the People’s Court of the Provincial Court of La Coruña, insisted on the fact that he was under oath and on his obligation to say the truth.
Jeremy was at the San Diego park with the defendants shortly after the attack. But he says he barely heard what his friends were talking about: “I wasn’t paying attention to the conversation, I was away with my phone.” The prosecutor, Olga Serrano, tried to put pressure on him in case they talked about the fatal beating. And even Catherine’s lawyer, Luciano Prado, in an attempt to dissociate his client, tried to get Jeremy to confirm that, in the park, she had criticized Diego for what he had said. But neither the prosecutor nor the lawyer achieved their goal. The witness insisted that the argument between Diego and Catherine had nothing to do with these events but “with jealousy” between the couple.
Concerning the attack which occurred a few hours earlier on the Riazor promenade, Jérémie assured that he had seen practically nothing of what he had initially described as an “argument” and ended up leaving it in the “brawl” category. He apologized, saying he “was 20 or 3 meters away” and had only seen “a lot of movement”, how they were pushing “each other”. He only admitted to the prosecutor that the five accused were in the melee, but nothing more: “I didn’t see what they were doing.” Because moreover, according to him, during the lynching, he barely looked up from his cell phone: “As I was on the phone, I don’t know what they were doing.”
Jeremy was with most of the accused at the Andén pub, where Samuel Luiz was also present but without saying a word – the victim and the attackers did not know each other. Later, security cameras also captured this witness in the area. And in one of the images, we see him with the hood of his sweatshirt on. “Why did you put on the hood?” asked the prosecutor. “There was a fight and I didn’t want any trouble,” he replied.
