Maxsoud Luiz, father of Samuel Luizregretted the crime that ended his son’s life. “You don’t leave a dog lying in a ditch, nor an animal, and my son was there, lying there,” he criticized.
The first section of the Provincial Court of La Coruña welcomed a new session of the process against five adults for the case of the death of Samuel Luiz on July 3, 2021, in which the prosecution is seeking sentences of between 22 and 27 years in prison.
On that day, Samuel Luiz’s father stated that, along with his wife and daughter, he was suffering from the psychological consequences of the events, including moderate major chronic depressive disorder, and that he was permanently disabled with a residual state of depressive disorder. mixed anxious-depressive.
Maxsoud Luiz described, between constant tears, your son as your “best friend”“a child who had a future ahead of him” when it was taken away from him. “I come from an unhappy family, which self-destructed due to gender-based violence and alcohol. I taught my son values, that’s what I taught my son until the day they took him away from me,” he said.
“My son was a person who had an excellent education, my son He was a person who never drank, He did not like to fight, I can say that, in my way of seeing and thinking, he received an exemplary education, which he had in the church with me and there we educate people to be of good people,” he explained.
According to her testimony, he was so calm that he told her he would never get in trouble because he was setting an example for her. “The advice is to always stay away from violence. If there is something, run away, run away, because it can destroy a family, I always taught him that,” he continued.
Maxsoud Luiz criticized the “hatred” Samuel received that night and demanded that “He who must pay, let him pay” because what he wants is to continue his life while “there are many families destroyed, there is not one, there are many”.
“I was not born to judge, I was born to be in a church to help people and teach values (…) What they did with my son was hatred. Not even one dog is not left lying in a ditch, nor to an animal, and my son was there, lying there,” he added. He also said that one day he asked Samuel about his sexual orientation, but he replied: “Dad, it’s not time yet.”
After her son’s murder, her life changed because They took away “what he loved most” and, “like any father or mother, if you take a child from them, they will be lost”, which is why she revealed several moments of suicidal thoughts.
Now what you want it’s following one’s path “without speaking”for which he asked to avoid the press and clarified that he would not sell his son to the media: “They offered me many things to sell my son’s life, but never”, he concluded .
