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.

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    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
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    Who wants Lady Gaga dead? I’m a bit shocked.

    And then the second thought rolls in, identifying her associations with drag queens and I’m thinking it’s a far right individual.

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      It wasn’t actually to target her but lgbt+ people that were there.

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      Let me explain Catholic religious beliefs. If you get a vagina, you’re a girl. If you get a penis, you’re a boy. If you get a big penis, you’re well endowed. If you get big boobs, you got plastic surgery. If you get a penis and big boobs, you’re the devil and must die, you’re everywhere and everyone and can hear my thoughts when I poop. Same if you have a penis but you used to have a vagina. There are various other combinations regarding clothes where you keep your penis but you tuck it away. Women who dressed as men have on occasions been heroes like Milan, but I can’t think up any at the moment. They’re mostly witches and must be burnt. Amen! Oh but if you got a penis and you like men…hmmm that’s evil. Amen again! And rich assholes are totally fine.

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        Lady Gaga is a girl. Always has been. She simply moved in drag circles and borrowed the showmanship.

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          She’s a woman yes. But her following is composed of people of all colors and genders.

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            Except purple, green, and other non-life compatible people colors. They got other problems to worry about temporarily before the inevitable dull pink gray color sets in. I’m sure they would still enjoy the music given a choice.

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      It’s almost always a far right individual, even when the target is also far right.

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

    I think these tiktok challenges are starting to go a bit too far.

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      “Hey sweetpoos today we are going to do the Domestic Terrorist challenge, please like and subscribe and ring the bell for notifications”

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    I asked myself, for a moment or two, what a “foil bomb” is. And why would the police do that to Gaga, or to a farm plot at her concert?

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

    I bet those states lie somewhere in the south.