Brazilian police thwarted a bomb plot at Lady Gaga’s concert in Rio, attended by 2.1 million people.
The plot was orchestrated by a group promoting hate speech and radicalization, recruiting minors for
- improvised explosives
- Molotov cocktails
attacks. The suspects, falsely claiming ties to Gaga’s “Little Monsters,” were exposed by a Cyber Operations Lab report.
Authorities apprehended the group leader in Rio Grande do Sul and a teenager with child pornography in Rio. The operation involved over a dozen search and seizure warrants across several states.
Tags #Law, #ProminentPeople, #Security
Lucem News Editor’s Opinion: When even a Lady Gaga concert needs bomb-sniffing dogs, maybe it’s time Brazil focuses less on virtue signaling and more on cracking down on actual domestic terrorism. But sure, let’s keep pretending the biggest threat is mean tweets.
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