• Direct witness This was the attack on Samuel, the young man who was killed in a beating in La Coruña: "I only heard the blows"

  • Event Several suspects and many questions after the fatal beating of a young man in A Coruña

Those who knew

Samuel

still have a hard time assimilating what happened. "He never got into a problem. We never saw him disrespect anyone," recall his friends, with whom EL MUNDO has had the opportunity to speak. Everyone has made it clear that they want justice and convey that behind the event there are parents who have just lost their only son: "The father does not want us to hug him because he is falling apart."

A

Samuel Luiz Muniz

, 24, was killed in a brutal beating about three in the morning of Friday to Saturday next to the promenade of

La Coruna

.

A group of young people kicked and punched him and, when he was already seriously injured, they left him lying in the middle of the street and left the place.

Despite the fact that the health services tried to revive him for two hours, they were unable to save his life and he ended up dying in hospital.

Samuel, as a child in a photograph provided by the family.

Ten of his friends have wanted to share with this newspaper a letter dedicated to his best friend and that we expose below:

"Samuel was the best person you could ever meet. He was always good to everyone and was always there when you needed him, through thick and thin. Everyone loved him for who he was, is. When you knew him thoroughly you knew that he was all goodness and happiness. He was the fundamental pillar of the group and the best friend of all. He liked to travel, take care of himself, go out to party and be with his friends, you could always count on him.

Samuel was the kind of person who comes into your life like an energetic hurricane that you seem to have known for a lifetime. He was joy, he was support, a companion of good memories and afternoons of laughter, of long nights and gray days, he was that person who, if he had to tell you things, would do it bluntly. He made you see your mistakes and at the same time helped you with them and accepted you as you were. He radiated joy wherever he went and there were no impossibilities with him, because everything he proposed he achieved.

In time we will stop crying over his absence, and we will laugh and be moved by his memories.

There are people who leave their mark on us, and the one that Samuel has left in us will continue to beat and accompany us for the rest of our lives.

Now is a hard and unfair moment of farewell, life leaves us on the road sour bitter and hard moments like this.

You have to get strength and courage to move forward.

We can only give thanks for the time he spent with us and the moments he gave us, which we will never forget.

A little bit of him has remained in all of us.

You are gone, but we will be here every day fighting for what you deserve, justice.

We love you.

Your friends Lina, Sandra, Cristina, Andrea, Alexia, Sofía, Leo, Melissa, Vanesa and Stiven ".

This Monday, July 5,

Samuel

woke up at his home in

Meicende

, in the neighboring Coruña municipality of

Arteixo

.

After having breakfast with his parents, he would travel the 6 kilometers a day that separated him from the city that saw him grow up to the place where he cared for vulnerable people in the last stage of their lives.

A life that was taken from him, Samuel.

A summer night.

On a street in

Riazor

.

Shouting "fag!"

At the age of 24.

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