The Prosecutor’s Office made a request from the 8th Investigation Judge. A Coruna Extension of the preventive detention of three minors deprived of liberty and awaiting trial for Samuel Luis’ fault. In a month it will be two years after the fatal beating Across the street is the young man from Meicende, who died after being beaten multiple times for about six minutes on the night of 2-3 July 2021, from the seafront to Avenida de Buenos Aires 2, at the height of the El Andén building.
The judge has to decide on the situation of these three youths who have been in prison since 9 July 2021, as the maximum period in Spain an adult can remain in prison without trial is two years, although this measure can be extended, though. Two more years if the investigating judge sees it that way.
The three detainees appeared before the judge this week.It is the person who will decide whether they should remain in prison or be released pending trial as requested by the prosecutor’s office. The sources referenced by this newspaper are, The most common in these cases is that the judge extends the term and the young people stay in prison, because for now the investigation of the facts has not been closed.
The investigation continues against the five suspects, who are of legal age: A woman who is the partner of one of those arrested, and another young man, who is the seventh detainee, are not in prison, although their investigations continue for this crime, in addition to three of them. men who spent almost two years in jail. LTwo minors involved in the fatal beating and at the time of the attack, reached an agreement with the parties in April last year, before the hearing, and They agreed to serve three and a half years in prison for the murder of Samuel Luiz. and also for shooting Ibrahima and Magatte, two Senegalese who stood between the young man and the attackers to contain the beating.
The two young men, aged 16 and 17 at the time, also agreed to pay financial compensation to the deceased’s family. despite andThese two convicts admitted to committing the crime of murder., the five oldest still waiting for the charges against them to be formulated to find out if they are being investigated for murder or manslaughter. The charges are mounting in the fourth, one of those detained, as he is accused of embezzling the victim’s mobile phone, which he claims he picked up after the deadly attack. When it was learned that the device belonged to the deceased, it was thrown into a container instead of handing it over to the National Police. The device never surfaced, and in the synopsis one of the gang members assures that this young man tried to sell the device after the fatal attack.
About a year ago, in mid-June 2022, the National Police received messages that suspects had deleted from their social networks following the beating of Samuel Luiz. The Investigation Court has sent a rogatory letter to the US to allow Meta, owner of WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, to access this information. In these communications, the agents hoped to find clues as to what the suspects were doing that morning, because they knew they had met up to twice, as well as whether they could find out if they were trying to agree an alibi and under what circumstances. One of the unknowns that needs to be resolved – and addressed in the trial – by referring to the victim is whether the crime was committed for homophobic reasons.
Samuel was dating a friend, Lina, that night. According to his testimony, they video chatted with another friend when they left the El Andén bar, and then a young man who was with his girlfriend reproached him for recording her and added a “faggot” to his site. And from this “faggot” was released the brutal aggression, which was no longer just between Samuel and that young man who has been imprisoned and imprisoned since July 9, 2021, but was joined by someone else who managed to throw him to the ground. victim and then, for six minutes, and much more on a 150-foot journey where Samuel Luiz rained blows all over his body, including a bottle, according to forensic evidence.
The association ALAS Coruña, as well as the prosecution and the special prosecutor’s office, attended the hearing as a public trial to determine whether the crime was homophobic. Although they met in the same bar before the attack, the young people did not know each other before.