In the trial of Samuel Luizwhich was held this Thursday morning, saw new footage of fatal beating what they gave him and what this persecution was like in which his attackers ended his life, while they devoted themselves homophobic insults.
These images were also seen by two of the accused who were due to testify. Both were in the tumult in which Samuel lost his life and both declared themselves innocent before the judge. The people surveyed spent two and a quarter hours trying to disengage from aggression. “I didn’t hit him,” hears Alejandro, who named two other defendants in his statement: “I saw Diego Montaña and Alejandro Freire attack him“.
After that, he said he tried to mediate, but when he was unsuccessful, he decided to leave. A very different version from those he had given previously. Even admitted he lied when he testified as a witness and denied that when he approached the scene he was going to hit him, but that he wanted to help him.
During the trial, clear television quality images were seen for the first time. the night Samuel died. Alejandro denied seeing himself in them, also in the disco: “I don’t see myself clearly,” he told the judge.
He also stated Katy Silvaanother of the accused, and named her boyfriend as the initiator of the attack. “He told him ‘stop recording, let’s see if I’m going to kill you, faggot’“, he emphasized; then he admitted that Diego Montaña, his boyfriend, had thrown himself at him and hit him.”perforation“.
She, on the other hand, distanced herself from the deadly attack and declared that “He only tried to help, separating Samuel’s friend“And he even told the jury, while trying to apologize, that he had slapped his partner twice to make him see reason.
