On Saturday (3 July), Samuel Luiz – a 24-year-old nursing student – was beaten to death outside a nightclub in the northern city of A Coruna, Galicia, in a suspected anti-gay hate crime.
The attack began over a mobile phone, when the assailant and “two of his companions” believed Luiz was recording them. The police described what followed as a “human pack kicking a youngster for more than 150 meters down a street,” the same distance between the nightclub and 2 Buenos Aired Avenue, which is where Luiz “fell to the ground as if he were dead”.
The same sources said the assailants “showed him no mercy” with “between six and 10 people still kicking him” when he was unconscious.