Spanish police have arrested three people in connection to the brutal murder of a male nursing assistant in a suspected homophobic attack that prompted protests across the country.
Samuel Luiz, 24, was fatally beaten outside a nightclub in Galicia, Spain after a man threatened him using homophobic slurs.
The investigation into Luiz’s death is ongoing and no motive has been ruled out — including the possibility that it was a homophobic crime — according to Jose Minones, the government’s chief delegate to northwest Spain. “A judge will decide if this was a hate crime,” Minones told Spain’s SER radio in an interview on Wednesday.