Liam Payne’s horror balcony fall was "caught on CCTV".
The 31-year-old former One Direction singer fell to his death from a third floor balcony on 16 October while on holiday in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Payne was staying at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel and an Argentinian broadcast journalist has claimed that the incident was captured on video.
Paula Varela claims that the footage shows Liam falling after he “fainted” on the balcony, but alleged that authorities were keeping the clip a secret. She also claimed that a night worker at the hotel formed a close relationship with Liam and was the focus of an investigation, which aims to find out who supplied the singer with drugs that are suspected to have contributed to his death.
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While speaking on Socios del Espectaculo, a popular Argentinian TV programme, Paula claimed: “There is footage that is not being released to the media with the balcony scene where you see that Liam faints and tragically, because of where he is, falls from that balcony. If he had been beside his bed he would have fallen on his bed.”
“It’s not that he jumped deliberately. This footage is in the official case files. There’s a lad who’s being investigated, he was working nights at the hotel. He struck up an excellent relationship with Liam.”
She claimed that the hotel worker “disobeyed an order from the hotel management” and claimed: “It was not to take anything into Liam’s room.” Paula went on to claim: “Because of the good relationship he had with Liam, he requested a car through one of these taxi apps we all use because Liam wanted something.”
The journalist claimed that the hotel worker “did Liam a favour,” which was a “massive error” because he is now “being investigated” and authorities are trying to work out “what was transferred in that vehicle”.
She claimed that the hotel worker “has been suspended” and although he was allegedly “a cherished member of staff and a “good worker,” the employee “disobeyed an order that could have proved fatal”.
After Liam’s death, prosecutors issued a statement saying that they believe the singer was “in a state of semi or total unconsciousness” during a substance-induced “psychotic episode” when he sadly died after falling from the balcony in his hotel room.
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