This week, the trial of those accused of death of Samuel Luizwho was attacked in the street by a group of young people while they shouted homophobic insults at him. The prosecutor called the beating a “brutal hunt.” and “inhumane,” in which her attackers were “fully aware that they could cause her death and did not release her until she collapsed.”
José Luis Torá, journalist from laSexta, reconstructs How did this brutal attack take place? who ended the life of Samuel Luiz. The young man spent the night in a place in La Coruña. At around 3 a.m., two of the accused were removed by security from the gambling den and headed towards stairs close to the premises where their victim was located.
When they went to reprimand him, Samuel was with his friend making a video call. It was then that the ordeal and the insults began. “They told him: ‘faggot, stop recording’“But Samuel never recorded anything. In fact, his friend Lina, who was next to him at the time, came to his defense and assured the group that they were not recording, but that they were making a video call instead.
“In a few seconds, I was on the ground,” the young woman recalled during the trial, where she could not help but break down as she recounted how it all happened.
At that moment, the brutal and deadly beatings began, which several people joined. A cloud of blows and punches They only stopped when Samuel was helped by two Senegalese citizens. “They came towards me from all sides,” says one of the Senegalese who tried to help the young man. “It was like a fight,” he recalled, adding that The young man “was covered in blood everywhere”. “We’ve never seen anything like this.”
According to police, when the group learned of Samuel’s death, they moved to another location to orchestrate testimonies and even delete conversations and phone calls so as not to leave a trace.
