Police believe that the attackers attacked LGBTQ fans who attended the free American Star concert on Copacabana de Río.
The Brazilian police arrested two people in relation to an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a concert by Lady Gaga in Rio de Janeiro that attracted more than two million people.
The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro said on social networks on Sunday that he had frustrated a bomb attack that had been planned by suspects for the free concert, held at the famous Copacabana Beach on Saturday.
Police added that an adult “responsible for the plan” had been arrested along with a teenager in an operation with the name of “false monster” of the Coden operation.
The suspects, he said, had recruited online people to “carry out attacks using improvised explosives” in the objective of “gaining notoriety in social networks.” The police who work in coordination with the Ministry of Justice carried out raids throughout the state of Rio de Janeiro, as well as in the states of Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso.
Felipe Cury, secretary of the Rio Police, said Sunday that the authorities believed that the suspects sought to point to the LGBTQ community in Brazil, since “clearly” they declared that they were planning an attack “motivated by sexual orientation.”
Rio police chief Luiz Lima said that the group behind the plot spread the hate speech and online violent content “to attract more spectators, more participants, most of them teenagers, many of them children.”
The show, which said Río City Hall attracted 2.1 million people, continued without interruptions despite the fact that the Brazilian authorities said they had arrested suspects in the hours before the event.
A spokesman for Lady Gaga said in a statement that the star and her team had not been aware of the security concerns “before and during the show”, just learning about the threat the next morning.
The statement added: “His team worked in close collaboration with the application of the law during the planning and execution of the concert and all parties trusted in current security measures.”
Security was adjusted at Saturday's concert, with 5,200 military and police officers deployed on the beach where fans delighted in the classic successes of the pop singer as the song born to This Way, which became a LGBTQ anthem after its 2011 launch.
The free Beach concert was highlighted at a time of exorbitant prices of tickets for live music worldwide.
