The head of the organized and violent crime investigation group when the death of Samuel Luiz occurred – in the early hours of July 3, 2021 on the promenade of A Coruña after a beating – has attributed to a “group, inhuman and atrocious” what happened that day, according to Europa Press.
“It is impossible to avoid the final consequence,” he stated after questions from the prosecutor about the death of the victim and after a report of the events based on the testimonies collected by the Police, more than 50, and the viewing of the images during three months.
“There is call traffic between the perpetrators that night,” he stated in relation to the meeting that, according to the accusations, the accused had in a park after what happened. This after previously specifying, based on the results of the investigation, that the five defendants were, with different levels of participation, at the “core of the aggression.” “Some closer and others further apart but they all arrive,” he summarized.
With “a continuous unity of action,” he said, referring to both a first point, where the victim receives “punches and kicks” outside a leisure establishment, to continue at other points along the promenade “until reaching the final”, where the deceased falls collapsed.
Questioned about the origin of the attack, he stated that “the derogatory comments that Samuel receives.” “Only because he answered saying that he was not recording,” he added about the moment when Diego MM reproaches the victim for recording him and he replies that he is making a video call.
“I couldn’t do anything because a black man stopped me”
This police officer, the head of the investigation from July to early November 2021, has confirmed that Diego MM, Catherine SB and Alejandro FG were detained as a result of the investigation, without their coming voluntarily, and that Kaio ASC went to the police. a few days after the events to the Police but to exonerate himself for the references that there were about him on social networks.
“He said he was going to separate, then we were able to determine that it was not true,” he stated regarding the day of the events to also specify that he did not tell the truth to the police on issues such as the clothing he was wearing.
“At least one kick,” he said regarding a witness who, he admitted, motivated his arrest, without being able to clarify, when asked by Kaio’s lawyer, that this witness later said that he saw him “charge”, but not kick, as also stated in the trial.
Of this defendant, the police officer stated that he can be seen, in the images seen in “three months of investigation,” running at “full speed” toward the “core of the main aggression.”
He has also confirmed that the last arrest was that of Alejandro MR, of whom he has indicated that he appeared only when he was summoned after the arrests and not from the first moment as did another young man from the defendants’ environment. “It caught our attention,” he acknowledged.
Regarding this accused, he assured that a witness stated that he told him: “I couldn’t do anything because a black man stopped me.” “He is seen running after Kaio and enters the core point of the aggression and at a given moment he shoots out,” he added about the images from that day. When asked by his defense, he stated that “no one points it out” when asked if there are testimonies or images that confirm that he attacked the deceased.
Regarding the alleged theft of Samuel’s cell phone by Kaio – a fact for which, in addition to murder, he is charged with this crime – he explained that it was not until a second statement with his lawyer when he said that a phone was found “for there and take it.” “One of the friends mentions it,” he said about the alleged attempt to sell the phone.
Sequence of events
All of this in a statement to determine the presence or not of the accused that day, although focusing, above all, in response to the accusations’ questions, on Catherine, Kaio and Alejandro MR to try to determine their possible involvement.
Diego MM and Alejandro FG – the first would have initiated the attack and the second grabbed the victim by the neck using the ‘mataleón’ technique, according to testimonies prior to this Wednesday’s session – have asserted that, according to the result of the investigation, are the ones who “pounce” on the victim from the beginning of the dispute.
He has pointed out that Catherine “separates” Samuel’s friend “preventing her from helping.” “Kaio joins in at high speed and Alejandro Míguez”, referring in this case to the moment in which he is seen at the initial point of the attack.
“There are kicks and punches, according to the witnesses, who report six or seven people,” he added about the individuals who participated in the initial attack, events for which two young people who were minors at the time and who have since been arrested were also arrested. They were sentenced to three and a half years in a detention center.
This in an exhibition in which he confirmed that only one person initially and then two Senegalese tried to help the deceased. Also with questions from some of the defenses about whether the video images show that someone was carrying a bottle or a knife. “Witnesses report it, I didn’t see it,” he stressed after specifying, to another defense, that in a search of the home of one of the convicted minors they found a knife, without being able to specify more regarding this point.
Testimonies about the only accused
The two agents who arrived at the scene of the incident, after being notified, also gave statements at the trial. One of them confirmed that Samuel’s friend told her that a person, “a girl,” had pulled her aside to “prevent” her from helping the victim.
Previously, a witness requested by Catherine SB’s lawyer, who had known her since she was eleven years old and who lived with her for six months, has stated that she “never” showed a derogatory attitude towards her because of her sexual orientation.
In this regard, and when asked by this lawyer, he said that he also defended him when they called him a “faggot.” “It made her uncomfortable,” she added when questioned about the accused’s attitude towards such disqualifications, which, according to the accusations, she also used against the deceased. For this reason, 25 years are requested for the crime of murder with aggravated discrimination due to Samuel’s sexual orientation.
This sentence is also requested for her then partner, Diego MM – whom the accusations consider the person who initiated the attack – and with whom this witness specified that her friend had only been with him for three months.
“Nothing,” she answered when the prosecutor asked her if, despite knowing her since she was eleven, the defendant did not tell her about the day of the fatal beating.
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