Brazil police foil bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio with over 2M attendees

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· Posted: May 04, 2025 11:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Brazilian constabulary said connected Sunday that they had thwarted a weaponry onslaught planned for Lady Gaga's historical performance that drew much than two million radical to Copacabana Beach successful Rio de Janeiro connected Saturday.

The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, moving successful co-ordination with the Justice Ministry, said the crippled was orchestrated by a radical promoting hatred code and the radicalization of teenagers, including self-harm and convulsive contented arsenic a signifier of societal belonging.

According to the Rio metropolis hall, 2.1 cardinal radical attended the escaped concert of the American popular icon.

"The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to transportation retired co-ordinated attacks utilizing improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails," the constabulary said successful a statement.

The Justice Ministry said the recruiters identified themselves arsenic members of Gaga's planetary instrumentality base, known arsenic the "Little Monsters."

The cognition was based connected a study by the ministry's Cyber Operations Lab pursuing a tip-off from Rio authorities constabulary intelligence, which uncovered integer cells encouraging convulsive behaviour among teenagers utilizing coded connection and extremist symbolism.

A antheral described arsenic the group's person was arrested successful the confederate authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul for amerciable possession of a firearm, portion a teen successful Rio de Janeiro was detained for storing kid pornography.

Authorities carried retired much than a twelve search-and-seizure warrants crossed the states of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande bash Sul and Sao Paulo.