A video is circulating on social networks that is attributed to the moment when the British singer Liam Payne fell from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires. Does it really correspond to the truth?
The death of English singer Liam Payne sparked several reactions on social media. One of them refers to a video that is circulating in numerous publications and that supposedly shows the former member of the band One Direction falling from a third floor.
Liam Payne died on October 16 after falling from the third floor of the Casa Sur hotel in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires.
Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, dies. “We will miss him very much. We love you, Liam”, says the band when saying goodbye
Some photographs circulated online of the state of his room hours before his death. In the photos you can see a broken television and some substances that Liam Payne supposedly consumed before he died. However, no official video of the singer’s fall was ever made public.
Inside the Buenos Aires hotel room from where Liam Payne plunged to his death. pic.twitter.com/7kJqMlZyAo
— Creepy.org (@creepydotorg) October 17, 2024
Although the video circulating on social media shows a man throwing himself out of a window, it is easy to see that it does not correspond to the moment in which Liam Payne fell. One of the reasons is that the facade of the building in this video is not the same as that of the hotel. South House, in Buenos Aires.
#Photo Liam Payne meninggal dunia seca tragis setelah jatuh dari lantai tiga hotel Casa Sur di Buenos Aires Argentina. I started penampakan hotelnya.
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Photo: AP Photo and Reuters pic.twitter.com/dogQ8o2L99
-detikcom (@detikcom) October 18, 2024
Therefore, the The video does not show the moment Liam Payne jumped out of the window. Rather, as the Mexican press reported in September 2023, this is a man who tried to escape a fire that broke out in an apartment in Mexico City.
In Mexico City, the man jumped from the third floor to escape the flames and only suffered injuries after the fall, despite being hospitalized.
Conclusion
The video attributed to the fall of the former member of the band One Direction does not correspond to the moment in which Liam Payne fell from the third floor of the hotel where he was staying in Buenos Aires. Rather, it is a video from 2023 of a Mexican citizen who jumped to try to save himself from the flames that had broken out in the apartment where he was staying.
Thus, according to the Observer classification system, this content is:
MISTAKEN
In Facebook’s rating system, this content is:
FAKE: Claims about the main content are factually inaccurate. Generally, this option corresponds to “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.
NOTE: This content was curated by Observador as part of a fact-checking partnership with Facebook.
Source: Observadora
