The Brazilian police say that they have frustrated a plot to detonate a bomb at Lady Gaga’s concert last night in Rio de Janeir
Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian police said Sunday that they had frustrated a plot to detonate a bomb in Lady Gaga ‘ S Concert in Rio de Janeiro.
The event, on Saturday, was the biggest show of his career that attracted some 2 million fans to Copacabana Beach.
The State Police of Rio de Janeiro said they had worked with the Ministry of Justice to interrupt an attack allegedly planned by a group that was disseminating the hate speech against the LGBTQ community. Police said the group sought to radicalize and recruit adolescents to carry out attacks with Molotov cocktails and improvised explosives.
“The plan was treated as a ‘collective challenge’ with the aim of gaining notoriety in social networks,” police said.
The authorities said they arrested two people in relation to the planned attack, the alleged leader of the group for positions of possession of illegal weapons in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and a teenager for charges of child pornography in Rio.
The authorities said the police raided 15 suspects in several states of Brazil and confiscated phones and other electronic devices.
