This Tuesday, Spanish national police detained two men and a woman in A Coruña, Spain, on suspicion of a violent attack that ended in the death of 24-year-old Samuel Luis early in the morning. Saturday.
According to the EFE news agency, sources in the Spanish Supreme Court were unable to indicate when the three young men aged 20 and 25 will be heard at the hearing.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlasca confirmed the group’s arrest, but declined to say if investigators were working with any specific hypothesis as to the reason for the attack.
“All incriminating elements are analyzed, as well as other elements that can determine what happened,” the governor said.
Fernando Grande Marlasca, according to the EFE, also asked the media to let the police “work quietly” because they are doing “relevant” work.
According to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the investigation remains open and further arrests are not ruled out, noting that the police, together with the prosecutor’s office and the court, are analyzing all the reasons that may be the cause of the murder.
Sources close to the investigation told EFE on Tuesday morning that at least 15 people had been questioned prior to their arrest.
All avenues are now open to investigate the murder, according to a Spanish news agency, although early indications indicate that the reason for the attacks was not homophobic.
At dawn on Saturday, Samuel Louis was attacked by several people while making a video call after a group of young people thought he was being filmed.
After receiving several bruises and severe blows to the head, the young man did not resist being wounded and died two hours after being treated in the Coruña hospital complex.
On Monday, in several cities in Spain, thousands of people marched to demand justice in the murder of Samuel Luis.
An emotional concentration of protests followed in La Coruña, Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia in connection with the murder of a young man, already condemned by the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, on Twitter.
In the Galician city where the crime was committed, thousands of people gathered in Piazza Maria Pita, summoned by LGBT groups, who explained the death of homophobic hatred.
