Brazilian police arrest two people over plot to bomb Lady Gaga's concert in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian constabulary said connected Sunday that they had thwarted a crippled to detonate a weaponry astatine Lady Gaga’ s performance successful Rio de Janeiro.

The event, connected Saturday, was the biggest amusement of her vocation that drew immoderate 2 cardinal fans to Copacabana Beach.

Rio de Janeiro's authorities constabulary said they had worked with the Justice Ministry to disrupt an onslaught allegedly planned by a radical that was spreading hatred code against the LGBTQ community. Police said the radical sought to radicalize and enlistee teenagers to transportation retired attacks utilizing Molotov cocktails and improvised explosives.

“The program was treated arsenic a ‘collective challenge’ with the purpose of gaining notoriety connected societal media,” the constabulary said.

Authorities said they arrested 2 radical successful transportation with the planned onslaught — the alleged person of the radical connected amerciable weapons possession charges successful the confederate authorities of Rio Grande bash Sul, and a teen connected kid pornography charges successful Rio.

Authorities said constabulary raided the locations of 15 suspects crossed respective states successful Brazil and confiscated phones and different physics devices.

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