this is how they killed Samuel Muñiz after a homophobic attack in Spain

The video of the fatal blows that Samuel Muñiz received from a group of men who assaulted him at the exit of a bowling alley in La Coruña was broadcast with the cry of “Fuckin ‘queer.”

It happened at dawn on Saturday June 3 in the Spanish city of Corunna. Samuel She was leaving a nightclub with a friend when she received a violent stroke. He died shortly after in hospital. The event was called homophobic aggression.

There, in the middle of the street, and facing the despair of his companion, a group of young men beat him up, shouting “queer” and seriously injured. Then, recognizing the poor state in which Samuel was, they left him lying down and left the place.

Although they tried to resuscitate him for almost two hours, they were unable to save his life. So far there is 13 people arrested They could be identified through local security cameras and recordings made by other people at the door of the nightclub.

How were the facts

After ten and a half months of quarantine, Thursday July 1, Galicia reopened night activities until three in the morning. It was good news for Samuel. At 24, the young man had faced the pandemic from the front lines of battle, working as caregiver in Retirement home.

As reconstructed by the newspaper The worldThat same evening, he went with his group of friends to Andén, a trendy pub. He had such a good time that he decided repeat the plan Friday night. This time with Andréa, Lina and Diego.

They stayed there all night until 2:50 on Saturday he went out to smoke with Lina. They walked a few steps from the door and They filmed Vanesa, Lina’s partner. The other two friends stayed inside the pub.

“Lina and Samuel were telling me stories from last night and They turned the mobile to show me where they had walked“, recalls Vanesa in dialogue with The world. And he continued, “At that time a boy and a girl passed together, Samuel’s age (Lina is two years older), and he he yelled at us to stop recording them“.

Samuel and Lina immediately explained that they weren’t filming him. The same thing Vanesa tried to do from the phone. But it was not enough. “Either stop recording or I’ll kill you, queer”, said the man to Samuel. And in front of the young man’s answer: “Grandpa of what?” he started hitting him.

After being separated by other people who were there, the perpetrator left. But he came back after a few minutes with others 12 men who savagely attacked Samuel with punches and kicks. Still screaming “Fuckin ‘fagot”.

When emergency services arrived at the place where Samuel was injured, there was little they could do. the resuscitation maneuvers which, according to Telecinco, lasted a few hours. The young man attacked, He came to the hospital alive, but there he died.

During LGBTIQ + Pride Month, the crime against Samuel deeply touched society and rose to prominence, thanks to a social media campaign with the hashtag #JusticeForSamuel.

In addition, they were summoned concentration throughout Spain to reject this aggression, which adds to other episodes of homophobic violence that have occurred in the country.