Ricky Martin safe after 'tear gas' — or maybe pepper spray? — stops his concert in Montenegro

Ricky Martin had to halt his performance Thursday successful Montenegro aft idiosyncratic successful the assemblage “discharged teardrop state toward the stage,” causing an “abrupt” interruption to the amusement arsenic fans retreated and got immoderate needed aesculapian attention, the singer’s publicist said successful a connection posted connected Instagram.

The amusement did spell on.

“As a precautionary measure, Ricky Martin and his full squad exited the signifier portion information unit and section authorities worked to incorporate the concern and guarantee the information of those successful attendance,” the connection said.

“We didn’t recognize what was happening,” 1 shaken Montenegran concertgoer said connected Instagram during the outdoor show. “Suddenly, radical started pushing each other, and we smelled capsicum spray. Many radical rapidly covered their mouths and near the area. I don’t cognize if there’s inactive anyone successful the country close now. I didn’t spot what the constabulary did. I tin perceive that the performance has started again, but I near the area. I anticipation everyone is OK.”

Whether the substance was teardrop state — which, incidentally, is simply a powder, not a state — oregon capsicum spray is unclear. Both substances person likewise irritating effects, contempt antithetic ingredients. Tear state is typically employed by instrumentality enforcement for assemblage power portion capsicum spray is often utilized by individuals for self-defense, according to hazmat and crime-scene cleanup institution Bio Recovery, which operates chiefly successful the American south. Both substances tin disperse wide successful the air.

Martin, 54, decided to resume the amusement erstwhile authorities said everything was backmost nether power adjacent though “members of the artist’s squad advised against continuing the performance,” the publicist’s connection explained.

The headlining performance, which was portion of festivities marking the 20th day of Montenegro’s restored independency pursuing the breakup of the erstwhile Yugoslavia, came arsenic the “Livin’ la Vida Loca” vocalist gets acceptable to embark connected a European circuit with dates successful Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Istanbul and much from June into August.

Also Friday, Martin announced helium would articulation the U.K.’s Heritage Live Festivals with a amusement Aug. 22 astatine the Royal Sandringham Estate successful Norfolk with Sugababes, Olly Alexander and Sophie Castillo. It volition beryllium his lone U.K. amusement successful 2026. Other artists appearing successful Heritage Live shows successful July and August see UB40, Lionel Richie and Eric Clapton.

“The emergence of Latin euphony arsenic a planetary unit has been phenomenal, and we’re thrilled to invited 1 of the existent pioneers who helped bring it to a monolithic planetary audience,” Giles Cooper of Heritage Live Festivals told the BBC. “It’s acceptable to beryllium an unthinkable party.”

Martin, who hails from Puerto Rico, joined Bad Bunny’s all-Spanish halftime amusement astatine Super Bowl LX successful February with a 30-second cameo successful a country invoking the screen of the second singer’s medium “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.” Clad successful each white, Martin sat successful a achromatic seat and dove into “Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii,” a ballad that implores Puerto Ricans, should the accidental arise, to defy compromises that Hawaiians made erstwhile those islands became a U.S. authorities successful 1959.