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submitted 2 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago

That's unfair, sometimes it's not a far right individual but a far right organization.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] dephyre@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

"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.

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome! That’s always good news!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

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
[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

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?

[-] vegetvs@kbin.earth -1 points 2 weeks ago

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

I bet those states lie somewhere in the south.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

You know they mean states in Brazil, right?

[-] vegetvs@kbin.earth 2 points 2 weeks ago

Where else?

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

coincidentally, southern Brazil is much more right wing than the rest of the country

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

And uneducated, not coincidentally.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Tbf, Brazil has a south

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