The round of witnesses in the trial for the crime of Samuel Luiz has started with a highlight. Lina, the friend who was with the young man when a mob of young people beat him to death in July 2021 outside a nightclub in La Coruña, has implicated Catherine Silva, one of the five accused, with a witness statement that contradicts the account of the events that she had offered the day before: “She told me ‘get out of here, you don’t matter at all.’ I am sure that he said it to me and it was not with the intention of saving me or Samuel.” The accusations do not accuse Catherine Silva, alias ‘Katy’, of having directly hit Samuel Luiz, but of having tried to prevent that Lina, the victim’s friend, could help him. And they demand 25 years in prison for her, the same sentence as for Diego Montaña, who was her boyfriend at the time, because in addition to accusing her of the crime of murder with treachery and cruelty, they attribute the aggravating factor of discrimination due to the victim’s sexual orientation. In this In context, on Thursday, in her interrogation as an accused, ‘Katy’ acknowledged that at the time of the melee she uttered the following words: “You get out of here, you’re worthless.” But, according to her version, she was not addressing Lina but rather Diego, her boyfriend, to try to get him to stop hitting Samuel. Lina, this Friday in her testimony, denied the major: she is sure that Katy was addressing her. “She pushed me, addressing me with that tone. “I didn’t see him addressing Diego,” Lina reaffirmed when asked by both the prosecutor, Olga Serrano, and the private prosecution. “It was not with the intention of saving me,” the witness added in a statement in which at times she could not contain her tears describing the fatal beating her friend received. Of course, Lina has admitted that Katy neither touched Samuel nor encouraged others to hit him. “Was Katy angry or aggressive?” the prosecutor asked Lina. – “She was aggressive, telling me to get away, her attitude was aggressive towards me, I’m sure she wasn’t trying to protect me,” she responded. Lina described what happened that morning, starting at two in the morning. at the doors of the Andén pub, on the promenade of A Coruña. She explained that, with her phone, she and Samuel were making a video call with another friend who had not gone out that night. It was Lina who was holding the cell phone. It was then that Diego Montaña, but, according to the witness, also Katy, his girlfriend, addressed them demanding that they stop recording them, because they thought that instead of a video call they were being filmed. Homophobic insults from Diego followed. Montaña addressed Samuel: “Stop recording or I’m going to kill you, faggot,” some comments that Katy and Lina also recognized on Thursday and Lina this Friday. Next, Diego “threw himself on top of Samuel” and “started hitting him.” But Lina has now added in the trial another important piece of information that incriminates Katy that she had not mentioned before, neither before the Police nor in court during the investigation. of the case: that, before the attack, not only Diego, but also Katy, hurled homophobic insults at Samuel. – “Why didn’t you tell it in your previous statements and why do you say it today?” the defending lawyer asked him. to Katy Silva.- «I say what happened at that moment. I heard it from both of them [los insultos homófobos]but more to him,” Lina responded.
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