The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro say they thwarted a deliberate bomb assault by a hate group focusing on youngsters, teenagers and the LGBTQ+ neighborhood at Girl Gaga‘s record-breaking live performance held at Copacabana Seashore final evening, which drew over 2 million attendees.
In a press launch, the company, in coordination with native officers, mentioned it served 15 search and seizure warrants throughout 9 cities in 4 states: Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, Duque de Caxias and Macaé, within the state of Rio de Janeiro; Cotia, São Vicente and Vargem Grande Paulista, within the state of São Paulo; São Sebastião do Caí in Rio Grande do Sul and Campo Novo do Parecis in Mato Grosso.
Dubbing it “Operation Faux Monster,” the investigation singled out those that have been recruiting contributors, together with teenagers, to hold out the assaults using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails with the purpose of gaining notoriety on-line. An unnamed man recognized because the the chief of the group was arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm in Rio Grande do Sul, and an adolescent was arrested for storing little one pornography in Rio de Janeiro, police mentioned.
In keeping with police, the digital-based group was selling radical ideology amongst adolescents, together with the unfold of hate crimes, self-harm, pedophilia and violent content material. The authorities mentioned additionally they went to Macaé to serve a search and seizure warrant towards a person who threatened to kill a baby reside on air, charging him with terrorism and inducing crime.
“The operation was launched to neutralize the digital habits that was being coordinated, with potential threat to the general public on the occasion, with none impression on attendees,” the police wrote within the assertion. “The work was carried out discreetly and exactly, avoiding panic or distortion of data among the many inhabitants.”
On Saturday evening, the Navy Police of Rio de Janeiro additionally posted on-line that it had seized greater than 200 sharp objects on the search factors put in on the occasion entrances, sharing a video panning throughout numerous knives of various sizes.
On the conclusion of the present, which started round 10 p.m. native time, the establishment wrote, “The mega present of @ladygaga in Copacabana has ended efficiently! #PMERJ was current with bolstered workers and strategic actions to ensure the security of the general public from begin to end. We stay agency within the mission of #ServireProteger.”
The Mayhem singer-songwriter’s free occasion, affectionately dubbed “Gagacabana,” drew a gargantuan crowd that surpassed Madonna’s earlier file of 1.6 million individuals again at her live performance in Might of final 12 months. Each occasions have been held by and paid for by the town in a drive to revitalize the state’s financial system, with extra exhibits deliberate yearly each Might for the subsequent 4 years. Gaga’s live performance is predicted to generate round $100 million in income.
Attendees traveled nationwide and commenced queuing early within the morning, some earlier than daybreak, to realize entry to the seashore, which was overseen by an unlimited safety operation that includes 5,000 law enforcement officials, steel detectors, drones and facial recognition cameras. Over 500,000 vacationers poured into Rio, greater than double what was anticipated. To make sure followers might hear the efficiency, 16 sound towers have been put in alongside the seashore, per the Related Press.
“You waited for me, you waited for greater than 10 years for me,” an emotional Girl Gaga informed the crowds as she unfurled a Brazilian flag, per the BBC. (The “Abracadabra” musician final carried out in Brazil in 2012, although she deliberate an occasion in 2017 that was canceled on account of a hospitalization.)
