The authorities of Brazil They reported this Sunday that They thwarted an attack with homemade bombs During the singer’s megaconciera Lady Gaga On Saturday at the beach of Copacabana, Río de Janeiro. For the fact there are two detainees.
According to the Civil Police of Rio, one of the detainees, suspected of being responsible for setting up the attack, was captured in the state of Rio Grande do Sul by Illegal possession of firearm. The other, a teenager who stored Child pornographyhe was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.
The investigation began after an alert issued by the Undersecretariat of Intelligence of the Civil Police (SSINT), which detected indications of a scheme aimed at attacking with improvised explosive artifacts.
From the alert, a police operation was mounted, with 15 raids in the states of Rio, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso, which identified that The suspects “recruited” people through the Internet to “promote attacks with the use of Molotov explosives and cocktails.”
The group sought to attempt at Lady Gaga’s concert, which brought together 2.1 million people on Saturday at Copacabana beach, for “Get notoriety in social networks”. The group leader indicated local media, “He spread hate speeches and prepared a plan mainly against children, adolescents and LGBTQIA+community.”
In the operation that ended with the arrests -called “Fake Monster”, in tribute to the singer’s first album, The Fame Monster-, the delegation of childhood and adolescence care victim participated (Dcav), The Delegation of Repression to Computer Crimes (DRCI), the 19th Police Station (Tijuca) and the Tactical Team of the Coordination of Special Resources (CORE).
“This operation is an example of the integrated response capacity of the Civil Police. We act surgically to dismantle a network that co -opted young people for violent practices in the digital environment. Our main objective is to protect adolescents and prevent symbolic violence from migrating to reality”Said Rodney Da Silva, director of the Directorate of Integrated Operations and Intelligence of the Ministry of Justice.
The authorities reported that the investigation will continue to identify other possible involved and determine if the group maintains connections with extremist organizations.
Lady Gaga offered this Saturday in Copacabana a massive free concert that lasted about two hours and developed under a strong security device that involved some 5,000 agents. The scheme also had 78 observation towers, drones with facial recognition technology and a dozen additional security cameras.
