One of the suspects in the investigation into Liam Payne's death broke his silence over the weekend in an interview with Argentine media. Three people were arrested last week in connection with Payne's Oct. 16 death in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the One Direction singer and solo star died after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony.
Speaking to journalist Guillermo Panizza about Telefe Noticiaswaiter Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, admitted partying with Payne but denied supplying the 31-year-old singer with drugs. to date, Argentine authorities have not released the names of any of the suspects who have been arrested and Bulletin board he could not independently confirm that Paiz was one of them.
Paiz said he met Payne twice before the singer's death but insisted: 'I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam's first contact with me was at my workplace.” He said they exchanged information and then got back together later that night, with the report including photos of the two men together. “We got together there and he showed me some of the music he was going to put out. I've heard people say that he was on drugs, but the truth is that when he arrived at the restaurant where I was working he was already under the influence of drugs and he wasn't actually eating anything.'' Paiz said the two men communicated through Payne's secret Instagram account.
When the two men met a second time at Payne's hotel on October 13, Paiz – who reportedly lost his job in the wake of the investigation – claimed he had spent the night partying at the CasaSur Palermo hotel, claiming the singer was doing cocaine while Paiz smoked pot. “We did drugs together, but I never gave him drugs or accepted money,” said Paiz, who added that his home was searched as part of the investigation but that he has not yet been questioned by investigators.
Paiz also said he does not know who the other two unnamed suspects are and that he does not know what happened to Payne after he left the hotel room. Click here to watch the interview in Spanish.
Last week, officials in Buenos Aires gave Payne's body to his family for repatriation to the UK and a press release from office No. 14 of the National Criminal and Penitentiary Prosecutor revealed the final results of the toxicological tests on the singer. According to a translated copy of the reportin the 72 hours before Payne died after falling from a three-story hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he had “alcohol, cocaine and prescription antidepressants” in his system.
The results of the autopsy concluded that Payne's death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding”, the result of the musician's fall from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in the Palermo neighborhood where he was staying. .
Additional reports concluded that Payne's injuries were caused by a fall into the hotel from a height and that “self-inflicted injury of any kind and/or physical interference by third parties has been ruled out.” Authorities also said Payne did not adopt a “reflexive stance” to protect himself from the fall, leading to the conclusion that he “may have fallen into a state of semi- or total unconsciousness.”
Against the three people who have been detained so far, a case has been filed for abandonment leading to death and for supplying and facilitating drugs.
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