The national police have identified and taken statements from at least nine people in relation to the brutal beating that caused the murder of the young Samuel Luis Muñiz, 24, at dawn this Saturday in the vicinity of the Riazor Hotel in A Coruña. The funeral of the deceased took place last afternoon. The persons identified are boys and girls in their twenties. The police are looking for at least ten people related to the event as direct perpetrators or related witnesses. For the moment, as Radio Coruña SER has maintained at all times, no arrests have been made.
The collectives LGTBI insist that the friend who accompanied Samuel heard how some of the aggressors called him “fag” at the time of the events in what they consider a murder due to their sexual condition. The Government Delegate in Galicia, José Miñones, insists that all the hypotheses to explain this terrible event are open.
Sources of the investigation have explained that the violent reaction of the aggressors was triggered by having interpreted some of them that the victim had recorded with her mobile. From Alas Coruña they ask for prudence while demonstrations are called to condemn what many consider a hate crime.
LGTBI organizations call on citizens to go to the eight in the afternoon to the squares of the main Galician cities, including the Plaza de María Pita in A Coruña, at eight in the afternoon. The City Council of A Coruña has officially expressed its “condemnation and rejection“to the violence that ended Samuel’s life, adding that in the city” there is no room for such heartless and inhuman actions. “He has called for a minute of silence this noon, as did the council of Arteixo.
All groups with municipal representation, Popular Party, Atlantic Tide, BNG and United We Can They have broadcast in public communications and through social networks their rejection of an act that they consider to be “barbaric” and of the extreme violence that presided over the actions of the aggressors. Ministers such as Yolanda Díaz, Irene Montero, Ione Belarra and Nadia Calviño have condemned the events.
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