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Liam Payne was spotted making a visit to the basement of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel just hours before his death as he visited the man accused of supplying him drugs
Liam Payne can be seen chatting to the man accused of supplying him drugs in a new video.
The late 31-year tragically fell to his death from the balcony of his third floor hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 16 The star died after suffering multiple traumas leading to an “internal and external haemorrhage”. It’s claimed that an employee at the upmarket CasaSur Palermo Hotel where Liam was staying had supplied him with drugs hidden in a Dove soap packet. A toxicology report stated that Liam had anti-depressants and cocaine in his system at the time of his death – despite having been clean from drugs just days before.
Now, new footage is believed to show the late One Direction singer travelling to the basement of the hotel via a lift to meet the employee. In the video, Liam is seen emerging from the lift before chatting with an employee, who was surrounded by two more colleagues as they went about their daily duties at work.
The footage, obtained by TMZ shows Liam shaking hands with the hotel employee before the pair become engaged in a conversation. After slapping hands again, the employee is seen heading out of a doorway before Liam heads back into the lift. The CCTV footage, believed to be filmed around 2:04pm was just three hours before Liam fell to his death.
Liam Payne can be seen meeting up with a hotel worker in a new video (
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The singer travelled to the basement of the hotel just hours before his tragic death (
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It appears that Liam and the employee were on good terms based on their interaction. Its claimed that only staff at the hotel had access to their supplies of the Dove soap which was seen in Liam’s room on the third floor of the swanky hotel. Three people have been charged in relation to Liam’s death.
According to a statement from the the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office, one of those charged is the individual who “accompanied the artist on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires’” That person is “charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death – contemplated in article 106 of the Penal Code and which provides for a prison sentence of 5 to 15 years -, as perpetrator, in ideal concurrence with the supply and facilitation of narcotics (art. 5 inc. e) of Law 23.737 on Narcotics).” The second person is a hotel employee, with them being charged with “two proven supplies of cocaine to Liam Payne during the period he was at the hotel”. And the third person, who is also a supplier of narcotics, is “charged with two other clearly proven supplies at two different times on 14 October.”
“Both were charged with the offence of supplying narcotics, two acts each (art. 5 inc. e) of Law 23.737),” the statement said of the second and third person. Liam’s friend, Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nores, has previously identified himself as the main charged with abandonment but vehemently refutes the allegations.
The late One Direction star fell from the balcony of his third floor hotel room (
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In an interview with the Daily Mail, he denied claims he was under investigation connected to Liam’s death. He declared: “I never abandoned Liam, I went to his hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened.” Meanwhile, a local waiter is also said to be under investigation after spending time with Liam and engaging in an “intimate” moment, having consumed drugs together.
Braian Nahuel Paiz, 24, who is suspected of being Liam’s ‘dealer’ in the ongoing prosecution probe – claims he denies. Braian, who met Liam for the first time at the restaurant where he worked, has since made a number of bombshell claims. Speaking on local TV, he claims that he never supplied Liam with any drugs and refused to take money from him. Opening up about his time with the father-of-one, who he claimed he met twice in his hotel, he protested: “I never supplied Liam with drugs. Liam’s first contact with me was at my place of work. We swapped details and saw each other later that night. It was all normal. He came down from his hotel room to fetch me because I had got lost.”
Braian claims the second time he met Liam, on October 13, they spent the night together while the singer consumed cocaine and Braian smoked marijuana. He said: “We took drugs together, but I never took drugs to him or accepted any money.” He added: “We consumed drugs because the truth is that something intimate happened. I stayed there all night… He wasn’t aggressive at all, he behaved really well with me, he was really sweet. He asked me if I was okay. I’ve got all the messages where we arranged that second meeting. I haven’t erased anything.”
Claiming he had no idea who the other two suspects were, Braian said he was confused when he saw photos from the singer’s hotel room the day he died. He added: “When I saw the photos of the inside of Liam’s hotel room nothing made any sense to me. The Dove soap packet was there when I was in the hotel but I couldn’t understand what it was for or the candles or the glass of water.”
