Brazilian police say they have foiled a bomb attack during the Lady Gaga concert on Copacabana – Liberation beach – Liberation

A carnage avoided. Brazilian police announced this Sunday, May 4 that they had foiled a bomb attack scheduled during the mega concert by Lady Gaga the day before Rio de Janeiro. The show of American pop icon attracted more than 2 million people to Copacabana beach.

Civil police from the State of Rio de Janeiro, in coordination with the Ministry of Justice, said that the conspiracy had been orchestrated by a group propagating hate speeches and encouraging the radicalization of adolescents. « The suspects recruited participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails »Police said in a statement.

The Ministry of Justice said that recruiters had identified themselves as members of the Gaga world database, known as « Little Monsters ».

The police operation was carried out on the basis of a report from the ministry cyberial laboratory, following information from the Rio State Police Intelligence, which discovered digital cells encouraging violent behavior among adolescents using coded language and extremist symbolism.

A man described as the leader of the group was arrested in the southern state of Rio Grande Do Sul for illegal possession of a firearm, while a teenager from Rio de Janeiro was placed in detention for storing pedopornography.

The authorities have carried out more than a dozen searches and seizures in the States of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande Do Sul and Sao Paulo.