Waves of people filled Madrid to show solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and to protest the death of a man over the weekend, Reuters reports.
24-year-old Samuel Luiz died over the weekend following an assault which many believe was an intentional homophobic attack. Seven witnesses have reported Luiz was attacked by a group who fatally injured him after calling him a “fagg*t”, as reported by El Mundo newspaper.
Luiz was a young nurse who was killed in the early hours of Saturday in the northwestern city of A Coruna in Galicia. Activists and protests joined together with signs and slogans protesting the mistreatment of the community and Samuel Luiz. “Their love is worth more than your violence,” a sign wrote, according to El Pais.