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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine justice confirmed charges against 5 radical successful transportation with the death of Liam Payne, a erstwhile subordinate of philharmonic radical One Direction, and ordered preventive situation for 2 of them for having supplied him with drugs.
A judicial serviceman confirmed Monday the judge's determination and said that 1 of the 2 radical ordered to beryllium enactment nether preventive situation — a signifier of pre-trial detention — was an worker of the edifice successful Buenos Aires wherever Payne stayed until helium died aft falling from the balcony of his country successful October.
The serviceman said the different idiosyncratic was a waiter Payne met successful a restaurant. The officer, who requested not to beryllium identified arsenic a information to speech astir the ruling, said that some look charges for supplying drugs and they request to contiguous themselves earlier the judge.
FILE - One Direction members, from right, Liam Payne and Harry Styles execute connected ABC's "Good Morning America" astatine Rumsey Playfield/SummerStage successful New York, Aug. 4, 2015. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)The justice besides charged 3 different radical with manslaughter, including a businessman who was with Payne successful Argentina and 2 managers of the hotel. The authoritative said that they were not ordered to beryllium held nether preventive prison.
In November, prosecutors filed initial charges against 3 people, but they didn't uncover their names.
Payne fell from his room’s balcony connected the 3rd level of his edifice successful the upscale vicinity of Palermo successful the Argentine capital. His autopsy said helium died from aggregate injuries and outer bleeding.
Prosecutors besides said that Payne’s toxicological exams showed that his assemblage had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” successful the moments earlier his death.
Payne’s autopsy showed his injuries were caused neither by self-harm nor by carnal involution of others. The papers besides said that helium did not person the reflex of protecting himself successful the fall, which suggests helium mightiness person been unconscious.
Prosecutors successful Argentina besides ruled retired the anticipation that Payne died by suicide.
One Direction was among the astir palmy lad bands of caller times. It announced an indefinite hiatus successful 2016 and Payne — similar his erstwhile bandmates Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson — pursued a solo career.
