{"id":463752,"date":"2025-12-22T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:54:13","slug":"%e2%82%b989-crore-payment-messi-unhappy-5-revelations-into-the-salt-lake-stadium-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463752\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20b989 crore payment, Messi unhappy: 5 revelations into the Salt Lake stadium chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fresh details have emerged from the investigation into the chaotic Lionel Messi event<\/a> at Kolkata\u2019s Salt Lake Stadium, with the arrested main organiser, Satadru Dutta, making several disclosures during questioning by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).<\/p>\n

\"Lionel Lionel Messi’s visit to Kolkata was marred by mismanagement an the crowd turning violent at the Salt Lake stadium. <\/p>\n

Here are five major revelations investigators are now examining:<\/p>\n

Messi was unhappy with physical contact<\/p>\n

Dutta told investigators that Lionel Messi was \u201cunhappy with being touched or hugged\u201d during his appearance<\/a> at the Salt Lake Stadium on December 13.<\/p>\n

According to him, foreign security officials had conveyed in advance that the footballer did not like being touched on the back or embraced.<\/p>\n

Despite repeated announcements asking people to restrain themselves, Messi was surrounded on the field, prompting him to leave earlier than scheduled.<\/p>\n

Crowd control collapsed after access was expanded<\/p>\n

The organiser claimed that only 150 ground passes were initially issued for the event. However, the number was allegedly tripled after a \u201cvery influential person\u201d arrived at the stadium and overpowered him.<\/p>\n

Dutta said this sudden expansion disrupted the entire flow chart of the programme, leaving organisers unable to control access to the ground area.<\/p>\n

Role of an influential figure under scrutiny<\/p>\n

Investigators are probing Dutta’s assertion that the arrival of the unnamed influential person directly contributed to the breakdown of crowd management.<\/p>\n

Police are examining whether this intervention led to unauthorised access and worsened the security lapse that allowed dozens of people to get dangerously close to Messi.<\/p>\n

Minister\u2019s proximity and resignation<\/p>\n

West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas was seen in close proximity to Messi throughout the programme, with visuals showing him holding the footballer around the waist while posing for photographs.<\/p>\n

He has been accused of using his influence to allow relatives and acquaintances access to Messi. Amid mounting criticism, Biswas resigned from his post pending completion of the investigation.<\/p>\n

\u20b9100-crore tour cost and frozen accounts<\/p>\n

Dutta disclosed that \u20b989 crore”>Messi was paid \u20b989 crore<\/a> for the India tour, while \u20b911 crore was paid as tax to the government, putting the total expenditure at \u20b9100 crore. He claimed 30 per cent of the funds came from sponsors and another 30 per cent from ticket sales.<\/p>\n

Investigators have also found over \u20b920 crore in Dutta\u2019s frozen bank accounts and seized documents from his residence, with police verifying his claim that the money came from ticket sales and sponsorships.<\/p>\n

Thousands of spectators had bought high-priced tickets for the event, but the programme descended into chaos as Messi became barely visible from the galleries, triggering anger among fans and subsequent vandalism at the stadium.<\/p>\n

The Special Investigation Team is continuing its probe into vandalism, security lapses, access violations and the role of organisers and officials in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh details have emerged from the investigation into the chaotic Lionel Messi event at Kolkata\u2019s Salt Lake Stadium,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[91785,211275,211273,5506,221,62,67,132,68,211274],"class_list":{"0":"post-463752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-crowd-control","9":"tag-investigation-disclosures","10":"tag-kolkata-salt-lake-stadium","11":"tag-lionel-messi","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-west-bengal-sports-minister"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}