Friends of Samuel, the man from A Coruña who has lost his life after a brutal beating this weekend in A Coruña, they are asking through social networks that in the different concentrations convened today throughout Galicia and different parts of Spain “there are no flags or politicians”, but donations to the Red Cross. “Let each person bring a package of rice, sugar, whatever,” wrote one of the deceased’s best friends in an Instagram story.
Interrogations are being carried out this Monday and the police have reported that the first arrests are expected in the next few hours. Meanwhile, today the city council of A Coruña convened this morning a rally in the Plaza de María Pita to observe a minute of silence as a sign of condemnation and rejection of violence to express the pain over the death of the 24-year-old young man from A Coruña. “We condemn any type of violence, specifically this brutal and irrational aggression”, expressed the mayor of the Herculine city, Inés Rey, at the same time that she asked for “prudence and respect for the work of the National Police “.
–???? The City Council of A Coruña convened a rally this morning in the Plaza de María Pita to observe a minute of silence as a sign of condemnation and rejection of violence and to “express grief over the death of young Samuel.” pic.twitter.com/tk6Z5HunZv
– A Coruña City Council (@ConcelloCoruna) July 5, 2021
At 8:00 p.m. today rallies are called in the main Galician cities: A Coruña (María Pita), Pontevedra (Plaza de España), Santiago (Plaza del 8-M), Vigo (town hall), Ourense (Plaza Bispo), Lugo (town hall) and Ferrol (town hall) in addition to others 45 localities of the community of the four provinces such as: Allariz, Monterroso, Camariñas, Ribeira, Moaña, Bueu, Carballo, A Fonsagrada, As Pontes, Boiro, Ponteareas, Vimianzo, Malpica …
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In turn, in the rest of Spain concentrations of rejection are also called for what happened in A Coruña, such as that of Madrid at Puerta del Sol ororganized by the Marika Movement of Madrid, in Catalonia in Barcelona, Girona and Tarragona; in Valencia, in Andalusia (Seville, Malaga, Granada and Almería), in Zaragoza, Murcia, Extremadura, Castilla y León (León, Salamanca), the Basque Country (Bilbao) and in Asturias (Oviedo).
In turn, from the Diverse LGTBI association have started a network campaign in which They call on the public to draw LGTBI flags from the windows as a “sign of rejection of the murder of young Samuel” while ensuring that “they are not going to shut up or oppress them.” In this context, several hypotheses about what happened in A Coruña They are open and summary secrecy has been decreed, so for the moment there is no official version in this regard and it is unknown if the motivations for the attack were due to sexual orientation of the deceased youth.
