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After Liam Payne’s death, initial toxicology tests revealed that the One Direction star had taken several different drugs before falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina, according to US media reports. In a partial autopsy be a “pink cocaine” The above-mentioned drug cocktail was found, ABC News and the portal reported “TMZ” on Monday (local time).

This mix contained, among other things, methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA, the reports said. According to the Argentine public prosecutor’s office, the toxicological tests have not yet been completed.

Payne, 31, fell from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday and died. The investigators said the Brit apparently had “went through a phase of drug abuse”. He was alone in his room at the moment of the accident.

Liam Payne’s body not yet released

Argentine prosecutors said one of their representatives met with Payne’s father in Buenos Aires. He informed Geoff Payne about the current status of the investigation and informed him that the toxicological tests had not yet been completed. His son’s body cannot be released beforehand.

At the meeting, Geoff Payne expressed the wish “to find out what happened”the prosecutor’s statement continued. He also signaled his willingness to “to testify about anything that could help the investigation”.

With a view to the reports in the US media, the public prosecutor’s office said it had “has not published a specific technical report outside the exclusive scope of the investigation and judicial proceedings in this case”.

Evidence of drug cocktail in the blood

Regarding the status of the investigation, the public prosecutor’s office said that investigators were currently examining cell phones, computers and videos from surveillance cameras. In addition, they would have “Numerous witness statements were collected to reconstruct the deceased’s final hours and the sequence of events”.

According to US media reports, in addition to methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA, crack and benzodiazepines were also found in Payne’s body. According to ABC News, there was also one in the room where the musician was staying in Buenos Aires “improvised aluminum tube” found – apparently for drug use.

A hotel employee is suspected of supplying the 31-year-old with drugs on the day of his death, the US television station reported, citing the police in Buenos Aires. He is currently being questioned by Argentine authorities but has not yet been arrested or charged.