New round of statements in the trial for the death of young man from A Coruña Samuel Luiz, which faces its second week. With the five accused of the murder in the dock, and the same attitude of coldness towards the words of the witnesses, one of those cited this morning confirmed to the members of the popular jury that that night he saw a mob chasing Samuel. He did not identify any of the attackers, but he did witness “kicks and blows” on the victim. He also revealed to the prosecutor’s questions a phrase that stuck in his mind that morning: “I’m going to stab you in the heart, I have nothing to lose.” The same phrase was recalled by another of the young men mentioned, who indicated that that person was “a boy who was shirtless and who was very aggressive.” “Everyone heard it because he said it out loud,” he insisted. The interrogations were based, on the part of the accusations, on clarifying the six minutes that cost Samuel Luiz his life in the early hours of July 3, 2021, with special interest in identifying the perpetrators of the lynching. Without a doubt, one of the witnesses pointed out Diego Montaña as the author of the beatings. “It was him,” he said. A few minutes later, another witness identified him again. “It was him, the first,” he marked Diego again. “A friend of Samuel came to ask us for help because they were hitting her friend because he was gay,” said this witness, who described a group running after the victim. One of the girls told one of the attackers “let’s go, the police are going to come.” “We were about three meters away from them,” he said to clarify that this girl – he could not say if it was Catherine Silva – was carrying, in her hand, a black leather jacket. MORE INFORMATION standard No Friends of the group also implicate Kaio in the crime by Samuel Luiz: «He carried his leg to kick him» Jesús Hierro«He (for Samuel) collapsed because he was bleeding. “We tried to stop the blood,” he recalled about the resolution of the fatal beating. At that moment, several witnesses indicated in this Wednesday’s session, there was no longer any attacker in the area. “Everyone ran away” and “he was drowning in his own blood,” they confessed. The defenses of the accused who are worse off coming out of the round of statements tried to delegitimize the witnesses’ version by referring to contradictions between their statements in the investigation phase and their latest version of the events. Regarding the victim’s final seconds, the members of this group of friends who ran to help him in the last moments of the beating stated that at the core of the attack there were “between four and six people.” “At first,” they maintained, “it seemed like a normal fight between boys, but then not anymore.” Apart from the group of friends, one of the first people to help the deceased also testified this Wednesday. This neighbor, a health police officer by profession, was going to pick up his daughter, on the first night the stores were open after the pandemic, and found “a group running.” “I raised my head and saw a person on the ground, on the sidewalk, and I gave him the first basic care.” At that moment, he saw “people watching”, although no one was helping him. «He is unconscious, I take off his sweater, I use it as a pillow, he is bleeding profusely from his head, I try to cover the trail of blood that he was bleeding and I turn him towards me to give him mouth to mouth and a cardiac massage. Time seemed eternal because I no longer had a pulse,” said this man. According to his memory, several boys came up to help later, but he asked them to move away to try to revive him. “There was a girl screaming, but I didn’t pay attention to her,” he said. Another of the citizens who came across Samuel already dying on the sidewalk stated before the citizen court that he saw “a group of kids walking quickly” and “it caught my attention.” “After that is when I make out the deceased with a girl on top of him with gestures of pain and talking to him, desperate and crying” in reference to Lina, the friend who accompanied Samuel on the night of the crime. It was these citizens who, for the first time that morning, called 061. It was just two minutes past 3 in the morning. In this session, the popular jury heard the statement of one of the doormen who were at the place where the group of friends were drinking in the hours before the crime, the Andén pub. “He was a gatekeeper and knew them all by sight,” he introduced. “There was a couple in a booth and a boy with very bad manners banging on a table,” he explained, speaking of one of the accused, Diego Montaña, and his girlfriend Catherine. “She was offended because it didn’t sit well with her that I asked them out,” he said. The deponent also made it clear that it was impossible to leave the premises with a bottle in hand. “It is prohibited,” he indicated. The accused are impassive. During the course of the trial, attention is drawn to the attitude of the accused, who remain crestfallen, without reacting, to the accusations that the witnesses level at them for their behavior that morning. Only Alejandro Míguez, who was already interrogated last week, seems to show interest in the stories, which he has been writing down for several days in a notebook in which he takes notes of every detail. (news in progress)
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