Almost a month after Liam Payne’s death, one of the men being investigated for allegedly supplying drugs to the Briton in the days before his death has given his first statements.
Last week, Argentina’s National Criminal and Penitentiary Office revealed that three people had been charged in connection with the death of the former One Direction member.
Two of them, the agency said in a statement, are accused of allegedly providing the singer with “cocaine” and “drugs” at different times during his stay in the country.
The foundation did not disclose the identities of the accused, but emphasized that one of them “is an employee of the hotel,” apparently referring to Casa Sur, where the artist died.
Accused of supplying drugs to Liam Payne denies doing so
Days after this information came to light, Guillermo Panizza, from the local program “Telefe Noticias”, interviewed a 24-year-old young man, who he said is connected to the death of Liam Payne.
The journalist assured that the name of Braian Nahuel Paiz “appears in the court file” about what happened to the pop star, who is accused of giving him drugs.
“The reality is I didn’t supply him with drugs,” the suspect stated as he began to detail what happened between him and the composer.
According to him, they met at the store where he worked as a waiter and, later, she visited him at the Park Hyatt Hotel, as he was staying there at the time.
“At one of these times he comes up to me and asks for my contact info, I give him my Instagram and there he is messaging me because he wanted to get high, he was already high, I think he was going to a concert,” she said. he said.
“We’re getting together. He showed me some of his music, which he was about to release. […] “We had a few shots of whiskey,” he said of that night, October 2.
Although she had heard that Payne was supposedly in treatment for addictions, she stressed: “The reality is, no, when he arrived at my place of work, he was already drugged and, in fact, not eating.”
Panizza pointed out, taking what Paiz explained to him, that he left after an hour and a half together, but that he continued to talk to Liam through social media in the following weeks.
Brian Nahuel claims ‘something intimate happened’ with Liam Payne
Continuing his version of events, Brian Nahuel Paiz stated that he met Liam Payne on Sunday, October 13, at Casa Sur.
“We spent the night there. We got high, because it’s real, something familiar happened. “I was smoking weed and he was on cocaine,” he said before the camera.
When asked specifically if she said anything to him because he was using, he stated: “No, because I didn’t see it as bad, I saw it as normal, good. He was not aggressive in any way, he treated me well, he was sweet, he asked me if I was okay.”
He claims to have evidence on his cellphone of his communication with the “Sunshine” singer: “I didn’t even delete anything, I left everything as it is.”
Paige commented that Payne allegedly sought him out once more “outside where he lived” and asked him to return to the hotel, which he refused because he had to go to work.
“He says ‘well, nice to meet you’ and that was the last time I saw him, he got into the taxi,” she said of the situation.
From his point of view, after saying goodbye to him at his accommodation, Liam was “scared” and considers that he “didn’t give up”: “He wasn’t on anti-depressants, someone put them on him, I didn’t. know.”
Amid the authorities’ investigations, Liam Payne’s body has already been taken to his home country of England, where he will be buried.
Source: univision
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