Brazilian Police Foil Bomb Plot at Lady Gaga's Record-Breaking Concert
- On Saturday, Brazilian authorities detained two individuals suspected of planning to use explosives at Lady Gaga’s free concert in Rio de Janeiro.
- Authorities disrupted the plot after identifying a group that spread hate speech online and aimed to target LGBTQ+ attendees, recruiting mostly teenagers for coordinated attacks.
- The concert at Copacabana Beach drew around 2.5 million fans and proceeded without disruption under heavy security involving 5,200 police and military officers.
- Rio Police chief Luiz Lima reported that the group spread harmful and aggressive material on the internet to gain attention, while Lady Gaga expressed her deep appreciation for the audience, saying she was overwhelmed by the emotion she experienced during the concert.
- The arrests and raids across several states, with no weapons found, highlight ongoing intelligence efforts against such extremist groups but allowed the event to remain safe and peaceful.
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Lady Gaga gave a free concert to millions of people on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday. The following day, Brazilian police announced that they had thwarted a bomb attack on the concert – which strongly suggests that the sadistic network 764 was behind it.
A 44-year-old man planned a bomb attack and fire weapons during Lady Gaga's concert in Copacabana, which assembled more than 2.5 million people
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Information on an attack plan with artificial explosives in the event reached the Rio Civil Police ten days before the event, through the intelligence service
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