Police avoided terrorist attack on children during Lady Gaga concert in Rio

The Brazilian authorities said on Sunday had prevented an attack on the bomb during the free mega-reception that the singer that the American Lady Gaga gave on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, who watched two million people. Two suspects involved in the frustrated attack were arrested.

In a note released this Sunday, the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police revealed that, together with the Ministry of Justice, “prevented an attack on the bomb that would occur in Concert from Lady Gagain Copacabana ”.

According to the note, the attack was orchestrated by a group that “disseminated on digital platforms hate speech, the radicalization of adolescents and self-mutilation as mechanisms of social inclusion ”.

Following the police operation, “the group leader and responsible for the plan, which was found with illegal possession of firearms. ”A teenager is also in custody in Rio de Janeiro.

In the operation, called “Fake Monster”, The Brazilian police also conducted 15 search warrants and seizure in Rio de Janeiro and states such as Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso.

“Those involved recruiting participants to promote attacks integrated, with all makeshift explosives and cocktails molotov”Says the police note, quoted by AFP.“ The aggressors idealized the plan as a ‘collective challenge’ with the purpose of gain notoriety on social networks”The statement adds.

According to police authorities, the terrorist attack would be directed in particular against children and adolescents -Group of fan of the American singer known as “Little Monsters” (monsters). Also the LGBT community, which was represented among the thousands of Lady Gaga fans, was targeted.

According to estimates of the organization of the event, two million people We were present at Copacabana beach to watch the US Diva concert.

Before a delusional crowd, Lady Gaga He began the perched show more than two meters above the stage, in a red dress, with his 2011 success. “Bloody Mary”.

The American pop diva, which has not been in Brazil since the tour of 2012, continued with “Abracadabra”One of the most famous tracks of his latest album,“ Mayhem ”, released in March.

In the middle of the song, Gaga took the red dress, under which she had another with the colors of the Brazilian flag.