More than 2.1 million people gathered Lady Gaga In his free concert at the beach of Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, where the Brazilian police disrupted in parallel a bomb attack that sought to attempt against the public.
After the concert, the authorities reported the arrest of two suspects, one of them a teenager, within an operation against a group that allegedly planned to attempt with homemade explosives the megaconcierto in Rio de Janeiro.
According to the Civil Police of Rio, the person responsible for assembling the attack was captured in fraganti in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (South) by illegal possession of a firearm. The teenager, who stored sexual abuse material of minors, according to the authorities, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.
The operation searches simultaneously in thirteen directions of the states of Río de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul y Mato Grosso. The investigation identified that the suspects “recruited” adolescents through the Internet for “Promote attacks with the use of improvised explosives”.
Lady Gaga did not know about Copacabana
After the disturbing announcement of the Brazilian police, the looks pointed to Lady Gagawho after the show did not give clues to heard about the attack. “The view of the crowd during my first songs left me breathless … the greatest crowd for any woman in history,” he said in a message also published on Sunday on social networks.
“Your heart shines so intensely, your culture is so vibrant and special, I hope you know how grateful I am to have shared this historical moment with you. If you lose the way, you can find it again if you believe in yourself and you work hard. You can give you dignity rehearsing your passion and your art, pushing you to new heights,” he said about the show, which surpassed in public the 1.6 million attendees of the concert of Madon. last year, also in Copacabana.
Through the TMZ portal, a Gaga representative said that the singer and her team did not have any history of the police operation before or during the presentation in Rio.
According to the report, even the artist would have learned of the operation by the media. “Gaga did not have the opportunity to choose not to act, because they sent her there without any knowledge of what could happen,” he says.
“His team acknowledges having collaborated closely with the forces of the order during the planning and execution of the concert, and always trusted the security measures implemented,” they add.
The presence of Lady Gaga in Brazil was widely expected after in 2017 he canceled at the last minute presentation in Rock in Rio due to health problems related to fibromyalgia.
