Argentine authorities raid hotel where Liam Payne died

BUENOS AIRES.- The Argentine police raided the hotel in Buenos Aires where the British musician died a week ago at the age of 31 Liam Payneformer band member One Directionwhen he fell from the third floor of his room, a police source reported.

Members of the special and technological investigation divisions were sent to the CasaSur hotel: “to carry out a raid ordered by the prosecutor’s office (…) to seize elements of interest for the investigation,” a police source who asked not to be told told AFP. identified.

Television footage showed a handful of agents working on computers at the lobby desk.

The procedure took place one day after the Argentine prosecutor’s office received the musician’s father, Geoff Payne, and assured him that his son’s toxicological studies had not been released by that institution.

On Monday, press reports were released globally according to which the British musician had several drugs in his system, including “pink cocaine”, crack cocaine and methamphetamine, when he fell from the balcony of his room.

“The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office informed the father that the toxicological and histopathological studies complementary to the autopsy have not yet been completed, and that their results are necessary to discern the delivery of the body,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The investigation continues

Although there is no stipulated deadline for the results of the toxicological analyzes, a source from the Public Prosecutor’s Office told AFP that they could be concluded this week.

In the same text, the prosecution detailed that: “expert reports are being carried out on cell phones, computers, photographs and videos from security cameras that require a longer analysis time.”

“Numerous testimonial statements were also taken to reconstruct the last hours of the victim and the scene of the events,” he added.

The pop star died last Wednesday at the age of 31 from “multiple traumas” and “internal and external hemorrhage.”

The preliminary results of the autopsy indicated that he was alone at the time of the fall and was going through “some type of outbreak resulting from substance abuse,” the prosecutor’s office reported at the time.

Payne was a member of One Direction, a hugely successful pop group whose fame began in 2010 thanks to the British television talent show The X Factor. The boy band went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.