Fans witnessed the arrests.
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BIGBANG star G-Dragon is currently touring the world after releasing his latest album Übermensch earlier this year.
The well-known rapper started off his highly anticipated tour in Seoul, South Korea, and has since successfully completed multiple stops, all of which have been fun not only for fans but also for celebrities from each country. That’s just the kind of event a G-Dragon concert is!
His latest stop was Macau, where the BIGBANG member had already completed the first day of his concert there. However, his second day started with shocking complications.
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Just a few hours before the concert started, multiple videos of the concert staff being arrested en masse went viral online. On Threads, several fans shared what happened, claiming the police had come in and arrested numerous staff members.
In the videos, you can see exactly that happening. Most of the staff were working at the merchandise tables. One fan even claimed that during the police operation, they were not allowed to leave the queues even after completing their purchase.
According to fan reports, the police had seemingly come in and arrested multiple illegal workers. Fans even claim that most of the staff present were arrested.
This is my first time seeing Macau police rush into a big event to arrest illegal workers. The majority of them were actually working illegally.
— Fan via Threads
Meanwhile one fan even claimed that the arrests had happened as a consequence of scalpers. They alleged that after multiple scalpers were caught by the staff members, they took “revenge” and reported the staff to the police.
The staff said they caught some scalpers yesterday, so the scalpers were angry and took revenge. They called the police and either told them the company hired workers who were under 18 or workers who came from Mainland China to sell merchandise as part-timers. The police had to take action since they got called. When the police arrived, all of the staff had to stop working and got their IDs checked.
— Fan via Threads
Since then, the concert has continued on without any more problems as G-Dragon is currently on stage performing his biggest hits to a delighted crowd. Meanwhile, neither G-Dragon nor his agency has addressed the worrying scenes at the merchandise queues so far.
