The person responsible for the plan and a teenager were arrested, the police said on X. A crowd of more than two million people gathered for the concert, which was free to attend. Police said the group that planned the attack had been spreading hate speech, mainly against children, adolescents and the LGBTQ+ community.
Two people are in police custody as Brazilian police say they thwarted a possible attack at Lady Gaga’s concert on Saturday, May 3. Police told the Associated Press the alleged plot was to detonate a bomb at the concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, which attracted some 2 million fans.
A man described as the leader of the group was arrested in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul for illegal possession of a firearm, while a teenager in Rio was arrested on child pornography charges, police said. Over a dozen search and seizure warrants were carried out in the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo, authorities said.
