Lady Gaga says she was unaware of thwarted bomb threat until learning about it from media
A planned bombing at a Lady Gaga concert in Brazil on Saturday night was foiled and a suspect is in custody, Brazilian authorities said.
A planned bombing at a Lady Gaga concert in Brazil on Saturday night was foiled and a suspect is in custody, Brazilian authorities said.
Unidentified people were “virtually recruiting participants to carry out attacks” using improvised explosive devices, the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said. The perpetrators planned to gain notoriety on social networks through the bombing, authorities said.
The person accused of being responsible for the plan is in custody, and a teenager has been detained in connection with the matter, police said.
Brazil's Ministry of Justice and Public Security alleged in a statement that the plot was organized by a larger extremist network that operates online to radicalize adolescents and provoke hate crimes.
It's unclear when authorities found out about the threat.
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