Admirers mourning the death of the singer Liam Payne attended evenings organized across the UK and other parts of the world on Sunday to pay tribute to the former One Direction member who died on Wednesday in Buenos Aires.
At least 1,000 people gathered in central London in front of the Peter Pan statue in Hyde Park, in front of which they placed “flowers, letters, balloons and photos” in honor of the young British artist who lost his life at the age of 31.
Gathered in the rain, groups of young people sang One Direction tunes. Some hugged each other and burst into tears.
“It was part of our childhood, we came to pay tribute to it,” student Katie Etchells, 20, who was wearing a One Direction t-shirt, told AFP. “I think he would be happy to know that a lot of people loved him,” said 20-year-old Italian Luna Franco, crying.
The tragic and unexpected death of Liam Payne
The tributes come four days after Payne’s death after a fall from the balcony of his room in a Buenos Aires hotel. Investigators indicated that his death appeared to be related to toxic “substance abuse.”
Payne’s father arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday and starred in an emotional scene when visiting the improvised altar in front of the hotel where his son died.
Payne He died after falling from the third floor of his hotel room in the Palermo neighborhood. In the room there was destruction and narcotics and the results of the toxicological tests remain to be known.
The singer’s girlfriend, influencer Kate Cassidy, wrote on Instagram on Friday that she had loved him “unconditionally and completely” and that she felt “totally lost.”
Also publicly saying goodbye was the mother of Payne’s seven-year-old son, singer Cheryl Cole, who said the little boy will have to “face the reality of never seeing his father again.”
Farewells in New York, Stockholm and Paris
Hundreds of admirers also gathered in New York, Stockholm and Paris. “It’s like losing a family member” and “in really horrible circumstances,” Anne Garraud, 19, said at a vigil in the Tuileries Gardens in the French capital. There were also tributes in Mexico City, Quito and several cities in Colombia.
Payne rose to global fame as a teenager in the group One Direction, created in 2010 after its members appeared on the show “The X Factor.”
What Liam Payne’s autopsy report says
The preliminary report revealed that the body had 25 wounds, with “internal and external hemorrhage” and that death occurred “due to the fall.”
Due to the position of the body, they deduced that ““Payne did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect himself and could have fallen into a state of semi-or total unconsciousness.”
The prosecutor’s office is investigating the case as a “suspicious death,” although “everything indicates that the musician was alone when the fall occurred and was going through some type of outbreak resulting from substance abuse,” the report indicated.
On October 2, Payne attended a concert by his former bandmate Niall Horan in Buenos Aireswith whom he founded One Direction in 2010 along with then-teenagers Styles, Tomlinson and Malik.
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