Savage. Animal. Unfair. “A hunt.” This is how he defined Catherine ‘Katy’ Silvaone of the five accused, the brutal beating which cost the life of Samuel Luiz on July 31, 2021. His bench companions are Mountain Diego, Alexander Freire, Alexandre Miguez And Kaio Amaral. The trial opened this Wednesday, more than three years after the events, in the Provincial Court of La Coruña. The goal is to clarify what happened that night when a group of alleged murderers And accomplices to murder and theft hit and killed young 24 year old caregiver screaming “fagot“.
The prosecution and the request for private prosecution between 22 and 27 years in prison for the five suspects. They are accused of crime of murderand some are added worsen discrimination based on sexual orientation of the victim, a crime of homophobia. The quintet, who was accompanied by other individuals – including two minors, already sentenced to minimum sentences, one of whom allegedly used a Kubotana Japanese weapon, to hit Samuel in the head – he was out partying that evening.
The group was drinking whiskey in a booth at Pub El Andenin front of the Paseo Marítimo de A Coruña, but something went wrong. Katy Silva And Diego Montana Marzoaher boyfriend, started arguing. He became very aggressive. The combination of alcohol and the marital dispute This made him lose his mind, to the point that they had to be evicted from the premises.
Samuel Luiz in a file image.
Angry in the street and still arguing with Katy, the leader of the pack, supported by his death squad, took out his anger on the first person he met. The victim turns out to be Samuel, a boy who worked as a nursing assistant at the hospital. charitable residence of Father Rubinos and that he was studying to become dental prosthetist. I haven’t been out partying in a while because of the pandemic and that night he wanted to have fun like any other person his age.
The young man was accompanied by his friend Lina Suarez. They were both one video call FaceTime with Lina’s girlfriend, Vanessa Gonzalezwhom they were trying to convince to join another party the next day. “Stop recording or I’ll kill you, faggot.”“Diego Montaña lashed out at Samuel Luiz, thinking he was pointing the phone at him to record him. Samuel didn’t even know what they were talking about, because he was just showing his friend the atmosphere of the street.”Queer of what?” Samuel replied. It was enough of a response to trigger the attack.
Diego hit him. Next, Alejandro Freire, aka Yumbawho was also there, grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground. They continued to beat him without any justification. Two Senegalese passing through the area, Ibrahima Diack And Magatte N’Diayethey tried to stop the attack. Magatte helped Lina, who was in shock. Ibrahima launched into the fight. “It was a hunt, an animal“, admitted Katy during the trial, who assured that she had tried to prevent Diego and the rest of the attackers from continuing to hit Samuel. In fact, she herself admits that she slapped her boyfriend twice times to make him stop.
During the trial, Lina, bursting into tears, admitted that Samuel kept asking for help. “I tried to get in when they were hitting him, and that’s when Katy threw me to the ground and said, ‘You get out of here, you don’t matter at all‘”, which contradicts the version of the accused. Indeed, as reported SPANISH At the time, early witnesses pointed out that while Katy was capable of slapping Diego, she was also heard to be one of the main instigators punches, and that he even said “hit him harder”.
“When I leave the place, I hear screams,” he says. Alexandre Miguezanother of the accused, who claims not to have participated in the fight and “dissociates” himself from his former best friend, Diego. “They complain about being hit. Diego Montaña hits a person. He hit him while Alejandro Freire held him by the neck,” he confessed during the trial.
For Míguez, who appears in court with an open and confident face, we ask 22 years in prison. For Katy, they are asking for 25. These are the only two free suspects; the others are in temporary prison. Diego Montaña faces 25 years, Freire another 25 years and Kaio Amaral at 27, since the accusation of violent theftsince he stole Samuel’s cell phone during the beating and later sold it.
Diego Montaña (i) during the trial to clarify the murder of Samuel Luiz.
The herd of death
After the first attack in front of the pub, Ibrahima Diack tried to help Samuel escape. They ran together along the promenade in front of the Riazor Beachbut the group caught up with them. They were not willing to stop. They manage to escape again. Already in the Buenos Aires Avenue250 meters from El Andén, the group finds them. At this point, Diego, Katy, the two Alejandros and Kaio, accompanied by the other minors already convicted, which formed a total of “between seven or eight people“, as Ibrahima assured at the trial, he attacked the defenseless Samuel.
As he lay on the ground, they kicked him several times. They touched his body, his limbs, his head. They beat him to death with sadistic viciousness. Forensic analysis revealed multiple organ failure and fatal head trauma resulting from a kick. “Everything was full of blood, we had never seen anything like it“Diack was recalled during the trial.”“Samuel died in my arms as they surrounded us.”.
The defense of the accused has a lot of difficulty, even though they have requested acquittal. There is a video in which we can see the beginning of the attack. Many witnesses highlight them. Diego Montana had 25 years old at the time of the facts; today he has 29. Partner of Katy Silva, he was the main instigator of the fight. Today he remains in a prison cell in Good. He admitted to having hit Samuel, but that he was not the one who killed him.
Everything indicates that it was Alexandre Freire (21 years old at the time of the facts; 24 today), who grabbed the victim by the neck, made him a so-called key mataleon and I threw him to the ground. “He chose the worst companies, he may be a coward, but he is not a murderer,” said his lawyer. But Diego and Kaio ensured that he put the aforementioned key on her during the first attack and kicked her during the second.
Kaio Amaral had 18 years old at the time of the crime. He receives the longest sentence, 27 years, because he faces not only murder charges, but also murder charges. that of theft with violencesince he stole Samuel’s cell phone during the fight. “There is no DNA from him on the victim’s body,” asserts his defense, even if the prosecution assures that “He kicked the victim in the face and in his head at a time when he was surrounded, helpless, at the mercy of his group of attackers.” He is currently incarcerated in Monterroso prison.
