00:00We are going to get into the case of Liam Payne right now.
00:02His death has really left many questions, right?
00:06Because we know that he did not make the decision to commit suicide, clearly.
00:09No.
00:09We also know through the autopsy that no one pushed him.
00:13Absolutely, that's why I told you, Mariana, for justice.
00:16He did not commit suicide, it was not an accident, but he was killed.
00:21Or at least there were people who contributed to that death.
00:25And curiously, one of the defendants is apparently his friend here in Buenos Aires.
00:31Let's see the report.
00:37I turn to the cause that investigates the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne,
00:42which occurred in Buenos Aires on October 16.
00:45Let us remember that the 31-year-old was found dead in the courtyard of the Casa Sur hotel
00:51in the neighborhood of Palermo, after falling from the third floor where his room was located.
00:57The musician was visiting Argentina and just hours before he died,
01:01he was uploading stories to his networks.
01:04Nothing foresaw his tragic end.
01:07We see how the father, look at what he created, Liam.
01:14These samples of love that are seen there in, I reiterate, the outskirts of the Casa Sur hotel.
01:22In the last hours, Argentine justice carried out several searches for his death.
01:27He arrested a hotel employee, a supposed dealer and Roger Norris,
01:32an American businessman and friend of Payne, but based in Argentina,
01:37who performed tasks as a manager.
01:39The latter was charged with abandonment of a person followed by death.
01:43The sentence to be proven goes from 5 to 15 years.
01:47For his part, the hotel employee and the other young man were charged with supplying drugs
01:52to at least two opportunities to the musician.
01:55The three are in custody.
01:57While the judicial cause advances, Liam's father, just yesterday,
02:01was able to return to London with his son's body.
02:04Payne's toxicological report is forceful.
02:07The presence of a massive drug and alcohol consumption was confirmed.
02:12Another death, which perhaps could have been avoided.
02:15Without a doubt, if the bodies are still alive, they also speak through autopsies
02:26and we can know then what he had consumed.
02:29Well, at first he consumed alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant, no more than that.
02:36An antidepressant that he used to consume.
02:38That he used to consume, that he was prescribed.
02:40He was prescribed, yes.
02:41He was prescribed, exactly.
02:43There was a time when he had taken some kind of synthetic drugs,
02:48such as Tuz and the famous pink cocaine.
02:50Well, that was ruled out.
02:52It was alcohol, cocaine and this antidepressant that he had prescribed.
02:56Now, there are some key names in all this.
02:59One is a man named Roger Norris.
03:02Roger is called, he is called Rogelio.
03:04Rogelio Norris, who is a friend of Liam Payne, who lives here in Argentina.
03:10It seems to me that he is Argentine, that he is rooted abroad, but that he is here in Argentina.
03:14Because I understood that there was an American friend who lives here,
03:18who also served as his manager when he was here.
03:21Well, we are talking, it seems to me, about the same person.
03:23I think he is American.
03:24Rogelio, it may be that he is American, but at that time he was here.
03:27Rogelio Norris, who is like his connection with Argentina.
03:32His representative, or at least the person who guides him here in Argentina.
03:36Well, he is one of the accused, he is this person who is here.
03:39He had to take care of him, let's say.
03:40And that he left 40 minutes before his death.
03:43What did he say?
03:44How did he see him?
03:45No, he said he had seen him well.
03:47That he left without knowing what was going to happen.
03:50That that same day he was in the hotel three times.
03:53And that 40 minutes before, he left without foreseeing what could happen.
03:58What does justice believe?
03:59What is the route of the drug?
04:01Because for justice, Liam Payne did not understand what was happening
04:04and that is why he ends up falling.
04:06He had no knowledge of the consequences.
04:08For how he was exactly, how his state was.
04:11What is the route of the drug?
04:13That this person, Roger or Rogelio, actually a friend of Liam Payne.
04:18He contacts someone from the hotel, an employee of the hotel, who is also accused.
04:23That hotel employee contacts a dealer who gets him the cocaine.
04:29And then he does the opposite.
04:31The dealer gets the cocaine, gives it to the hotel employee.
04:34The hotel employee gives it to this man, Rogelio.
04:37And Rogelio finally gives it to Liam Payne.
04:39Those three links are the accused.
04:42Three links that are accused.
04:45They were asked to be arrested, but since they appeared spontaneously in the trial.
04:50The dealer also?
04:51It was not required that they be arrested.
04:53But probably the prosecution will insist on arrest.
04:56And how far does justice go with the issue of the drug?
04:58Does it get to the dealer and stop there or does it continue?
05:01No, well, the dealer probably gets there.
05:04Because they have, at least in the last days before Liam Payne's death.
05:09They have at least two identified situations in which they drug Liam Payne.
05:16At least two situations.
05:18So you can even predict how much he had consumed?
05:20You can know how much he had consumed.
05:22In fact, there is a text message in one of the kidnapped phones.
05:28I have it here separated and I wanted to read it to you in text.
05:31Which is from Rogelio to Liam.
05:34Where he says, these six grams are good.
05:38It is a text message that was recovered by the prosecution, the prosecutor Andrés Madrea.
05:43Where this person says, these six grams are good.
05:46Which is part of the drug they gave Liam Payne that night.
05:50What are the accusations?
05:52Well, the first is his minister of narcotics.
05:55Who has a high sentence.
05:57But in addition to this man Rogelio, he is accused of abandoning a person.
06:02What does justice say?
06:03You took the drug.
06:05You saw and were at the time he was consuming the drug.
06:09You saw that he was bad, because it was 40 minutes before.
06:11You saw that he was in a state of tremendous excitement.
06:15And you leave.
06:16You abandoned him, you left him alone.
06:18In an apartment that had a balcony to which he could access.
06:21Well, you abandoned him.
06:23You have abandonment of person, says the prosecution now.
06:26Sorry, abandonment of person followed by death.
06:28Followed by death, of course.
06:29Of course, he ends up dying.
06:31What does he say?
06:33Because he spoke to a foreign medium, I think British.
06:36Yes, the Daily Mail.
06:38The Daily Mail.
06:39He says, I never abandoned Liam.
06:41I went to the hotel three times that day.
06:44That is, he recognizes that he was there.
06:46I left 40 minutes before it happened.
06:49That is, until then, what the justice had reconstructed.
06:51The justice that saw 800 hours of video from the security cameras.
06:55To see if there was another person who had entered to reconstruct everything.
06:59There were more than 15 people in the lobby talking and joking with him.
07:03It refers to the moments when he goes down from the room to the lobby.
07:08You remember that I had told you at the time that he goes down looking for Valvar and looks for more alcohol.
07:13Well, in the lobby there were 15 people.
07:15He has a chat with them, which they also declared.
07:17And then he goes up.
07:19It is also suspected that this man, it is suspected, is the one who got the prostitutes to Liam Payne.
07:25Let's remember that that morning there were three prostitutes who were with him,
07:29who finally did not pay them and left without the $2,500 each that they had offered them,
07:35which they also declared and were key to being able to understand part of this whole plot.
07:40The key name is this one.
07:42Rogelio's.
07:43This is the man who is the link, believes the justice, between Liam Payne, the drug and his death.
07:49How sad, right?
07:51The truth, a lot of sadness.
07:53Well, obviously this is going to continue its course.
07:56The justice will continue to act here, right?
07:59No, this is all here.
08:00The body is already in his home country.
08:03His father took it.
08:04And the defendants are still not arrested.
08:06They are still not arrested for now.
08:08Especially this man Rogelio.
08:10Let's continue.
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