Dozens of followers gathered to recollect the late British singer Liam Payne exterior the Palermo lodge the place he died a yr in the past Thursday.
Some requested for justice, with a trial to find out duty into the pop star’s life nonetheless pending.
Payne, a former member of the boy band One Path, fell from the third flooring on October 16, 2024 with the shock of his demise felt worldwide.
An post-mortem revealed cocaine and alcohol in his organs.
“For me he’ll all the time be a very good child who gave us nice happiness,” mentioned Jenifer Ramírez, 20, as she confirmed up on the lodge door, simply as she did final yr.
Aged simply 31 on the time of his demise, the star was on the town to attend a live performance by Niall Horan, who was a part of the chart-topping boyband together with Harry Kinds, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson.
“It was a band which marked my adolescence, I’ve been following it since its creation. It was a really, very heavy blow,” mentioned Leticia Alleri, 27, who travelled two hours from the outskirts of Buenos Aires collectively together with her sister and cousin to pay him tribute.
The tree in entrance of the lodge was a monument filled with pictures of the idol, flowers and candles which perfumed the air earlier than the silent gaze of the followers. Some spoke out to demand “justice.”
At current, two individuals aged 25 and 24 are remanded in custody for presumably supplying medicine to the singer whereas they await trial, for which a date has but to be set.
The accused might withstand 15 years in jail.
One in every of them had acquired to know Payne whereas working as a waiter at a Buenos Aires restaurant and the opposite labored on the lodge the place he died. Three different folks had been acquitted.
The accused offered cocaine to Payne on 4 events, the final time one hour earlier than his demise. They’re incriminated by movies from the lodge’s safety cameras and the testimony of no less than 5 folks.
The accused waiter has denied promoting the drug though he admitted to having joined Payne in his room to eat cocaine, in response to an interview with Gente journal.
The post-mortem revealed that Payne died because of the accidents produced by the autumn into an interior patio of the lodge.
The singer’s room was discovered smashed up after the tragedy.
– TIMES/AFP
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