Brazil police foil bomb plot on Lady Gaga concert in Rio – DW – 05/04/2025
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More than 2.1 million people attended a free concert held by Laga Gaga at Rio de Janeiro's famous Copacabana Beach. Two suspects were arrested in raids carried out across four different states.

More than 2.1 million people attended a free concert held by Laga Gaga at Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana Beach. Two suspects were arrested in raids carried out across four different states.

Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had foiled a bomb plot against a packed Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro a day earlier.

Two people were arrested in raids carried out across several states.

“The suspects were recruiting participants, including minors, to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails,” the police said in a statement.

“The plan was treated as a ‘collective challenge’ with the aim of gaining notoriety on social media,” police added.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    From a local news source:

    • The “criminal group”, Levast, mainly organized via Discord
    • Police was tipped in 28th April, likely from someone who was in that group

    From a different source:

    • The leaders of the group are from Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, the latter being a teenager that also had some CSAM in his computer
    • There was another crazy asshole who claimed Lady Gaga promoted satanic rituals, to which he would “make his own satanic ritual, killing a child during the show”
    • The states where the raids happened are Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo and Mato Grosso