A detailed analysis of the clothing and the movements of the participants in the lynching of Samuel Luiz allowed the National Police investigators to locate, without a doubt, the five accused of the crime of the nurse from A Coruña. Despite the poor quality of the images, the agents carried out an exhaustive job that this Monday they explained to the members of the popular jury in charge of judging the death. They did it second by second, frame by frame. The conclusions of this hard work are several and They point directly to the group of defendants. The agent in charge of these investigations made it clear, when asked by the Prosecutor’s Office, that None of the five men dissociated themselves from the attack, nor did they retrace their steps despite the advance of the attack.. What’s more, in the only moment in which Samuel separates himself from them and advances a few meters helped by the two young Senegalese men, The mob starts a race to catch up with them and end up finishing it off on the ground.
In between, the cash revealed the cruelty with which the group acted. And he did it by personalizing some of the blows that Samuel received. After Catherine Silva tried to stop the fight, at first, and then pushed the victim’s friend aside, the events unfolded extremely quickly and brutally. «Diego dodges him (a friend who tried to block him) and launches himself at Samuel and Lina, first attack. None of them have difficulty climbing the steps.. Alejandro Freire ‘Llumba’ throws Samuel to the ground by surprise. Kaio runs towards the attack area, he goes with great force, he jumps and kicks towards where Samuel joins,” the agent said while the viewing of the crime progressed. For several minutes and until the two Senegalese citizens appear on the scene, no one helps Samuel, who tries to compose himself on a couple of occasions from the rain of blows. The virulence with which the group acted meant that some of those now sitting on the bench were “bounced” from the core of the aggression. It happened with Alejandro Míguez, for example, the same defendant who declared a few weeks ago in court that he had distanced himself from the tumult and that he had seen everything “from afar.”
The reconstruction of the images with the help of the investigator also does not leave Catherine Silva in a good light, who maintained that she had stayed under a tree at the starting point of the attack. The agent maintains that they all advanced several meters behind Samuel, until leaving him already dying at the foot of the sidewalk. As proof of this, they not only showed the frames of the fight, but also images from the following minutes, where the accused are seen walking down the street without taking their eyes off the place where they had left the victim. Then there is a point “where they break up.” Some get into a taxi and others continue walking.
The technique to identify those involved was based, according to the police’s indications when questioned by the defense, on viewing the security cameras that recorded the lynching, which in turn were crossed with the statements of the witnesses from that morning. The defendants’ lawyers tried to cast doubt on the identification of the suspects.relying on the poor quality of the recordings. “When we do a viewing like this, we have to see the gestures and everything we can see, like the volume of the jackets,” the police officer defended about his work.
Photographs “with the gesture of cutting the neck”
Equally revealing, in the statements of this day, was the result of the dumps of the cell phones of those involved. About Diego Montaña, a physical movement is confirmed that night, a movement from the area, and also queries followed to local newspapers. There are also calls with all those involved, between July 3 and July 5. Regarding the conversations directly linked to the events, with one of the convicted minors, the minor says that “everything deleted” and Diego responds “bah, I hope nothing happens.” In Montaña’s cell phone, the police also discovered photographs of the young man with weapons of different types, with a taser weapon, with a balaclava and with a large machete. In some of them he appears hugging his girlfriend Kati. In others he makes a gesture “like cutting a neck.” She also put on a balaclava and took a photo of herself with a machete in one hand and a closed fist in the other.
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