Three people have been arrested and charged in Argentina in connection with the death of Liam Payne on October 16, authorities said.
The suspects are charged with abandoning a person followed by death, as well as supplying and facilitating narcotic drugs, Argentina’s state criminal and prison prosecutor’s office said in a Thursday (November 7) press release. Authorities have not named any suspects.
The One Direction star died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires.
According to the statement, “Payne was not fully conscious or experiencing a state of marked reduction or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall.”
After Payne fell from the balcony to her death, “unauthorized conduct was discovered that resulted in three individuals being charged with crimes,” the statement said.
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Authorities conducted nine raids this week, the statement said.
One of the suspects “is a person who accompanied the artist daily during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” The second suspect is a hotel employee accused of supplying Payne with cocaine, and the third is an alleged “drug supplier.”
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Liam Payne in London 2018.
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According to the statement, prosecutors attempted to “reconstruct the days Payne stayed at the CasaSur Hotel on Costa Rica Street” in Buenos Aires between October 13 and 16.
Prosecutors said in a statement that “self-harm of any kind and/or physical intervention by third parties have been ruled out” as contributing factors to his death.
A Nov. 7 statement from Argentine authorities said that in the moments before his death and for at least the last 72 hours, Payne had evidence of “multiple drug use of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant in his body.”
This is a developing story.
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