Lina was the friend with whom Samuel Luiz was in the early morning of July 3, 2021, when he suffered a brutal group attack that ended his life. He testified in the third session of the trial and stated that both Diego MM, the accused who allegedly started beating him, and his then partner, Catherine SB, called the victim a “fucking faggot” before the beating began. . Both, she insisted before the jury, demanded that they stop recording, despite the fact that both she and Samuel told them that they were making a video call.
Furthermore, Lina contradicted the version given by Catherine SB in her statement, in which she stated that she tried to stop the aggression, that she separated Diego MM when he was on top of Samuel, hitting him, and that she slapped him to try to get him to listen to her. The friend who was with the victim, who began to cry during her testimony, said that they were at the top of the bench on the promenade, near the nightlife venue where they had gone out and that they were making a video call with another friend when They saw a couple, he scolded them and told them to stop recording. Samuel’s homosexuality, he maintained, could be perceived by his gestures, his way of dressing and his own voice, which he described as “sweet” and “fine.”
He reported that Diego MM “launched himself” on Samuel and other people quickly joined him. One of them grabbed him by the neck, he said. She tried to stop the attack and, according to her version, that was when Catherine SB approached to push her away and say: “Get out of here, you’re worthless.” She stressed that she is “very sure” that he said it to her, not to Diego MM, and that his intention was not to “protect” Lina or stop the beating, but rather to facilitate the victim continuing to receive beatings.
Lina stated that she fell to the ground due to the push and a couple, a boy and a girl whom she said she did not remember, helped her get up. From there, he saw a crowd of people beating Samuel, who only got out of there with the help of one of the Senegalese who tried to help. By then, he explained, his friend could no longer stand on his own two feet. He insisted that she try to locate his cell phone and she backed away a little: “We thought that was where it would all end.” While asking for help to find the device, he saw a group of people start running. “I sensed that they were going for him again,” he said. Then, she added, she started running too, but when she reached Samuel he was already lying on the ground unconscious, with people around him. A man and a woman, he said, were already at the point and he asked them to call an ambulance.
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