The autopsy confirms that Samuel Luiz received multiple blows, in a six-minute assault
The autopsy performed on Samuel Luis confirms that the numerous blows he received in the attack he suffered in the early morning of 3 July en La Coruna They caused a head injury and death, as explained by police officials in an appearance before the media after lifting the secret of the summary by the court.
«They are six fatal minutes, six minutes of aggression over about 150 meters»Relates José Miñones, Government Delegate in Galicia. Samuel he died of trauma caused by a multitude of blows, most of them to the head. The aggressorsIn addition to punching him multiple times in the head, they could also have used a short, blunt metal-tipped weapon called kubotan, found in the house of one of the minors and which is being investigated, and a bottle. What the agents no longer doubt is that before the fatal assault on Samuel they yelled at him "fagot".
With more than 41 testimony, the recordings of the security cameras and the dump of information from the mobile phones of those arrested, the investigation continues to target “exquisitely”–In the words of the superior head of Galician Police the motivation for the aggression. "As of today it is not verified (the hate crime), explained the police command at a press conference. "But those lines are not closed”, He added.
The detainees tried to erase evidence
«The conversations of the mobile phones of the suspects have helped us to have more indications«. In fact, they explained that «they had deleted conversations to try to delete evidence«. However, they did not manage to erase everything and the researchers, in a multidisciplinary group in which they were specialists in scientific research and in social networks, managed to access those messages that have been key in the clarification of the facts, together with the testimonies and the security cameras in the area.
The bottle was found in the house of one of them, it was broken and has the DNA de Samuel and the aggressor. It could break on impact Samuel He had a 10-centimeter open wound on his head. Samuel did not die from a single blow. He had many in his head and all over his body. In the first sequence of the attack next to the disco, they did not kill him because Ibrahima protected him with his body throughout the sequence, risking his own life. Now the detainees are also being investigated for the attempted murder of their own Ibrahima. It will be the investigating judge who assumed the case who determines whether there is - or not. hate crime.
