{"id":73227,"date":"2025-05-05T13:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73227"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:50:27","slug":"brazilian-police-thwarted-a-bomb-plot-targeting-lady-gagas-record-breaking-rio-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/brazilian-police-thwarted-a-bomb-plot-targeting-lady-gagas-record-breaking-rio-concert\/73227\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian police thwarted a bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga\u2019s record-breaking Rio concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full\" dir=\"auto\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-56\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto py-5 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @[37rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @[72rem]:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:32rem] @[34rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @[64rem]:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto flex max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 text-base gap-4 md:gap-5 lg:gap-6 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden\">\n<div class=\"group\/conversation-turn relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"relative flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"60066308-3654-4685-91cf-afbd102389c5\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4-1-mini\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words dark\">\n<p data-start=\"43\" data-end=\"388\">Brazilian authorities have identified Luis da Silva, who was recently deported from the U.S. in April 2025, as the main suspect in a bomb plot that was stopped before Lady Gaga\u2019s free concert in Rio de Janeiro on May 3. The concert drew an estimated 2.1 to 2.5 million people, making it the largest audience ever for a female artist at one show.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"390\" data-end=\"664\">Da Silva and a 17-year-old accomplice were arrested just before the event. Officials say they planned to set off explosives and attack the LGBTQ+ community during the concert. Investigations showed they used online platforms like Discord to spread hate and radicalize teens.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"666\" data-end=\"917\">Brazilian police launched Operation Fake Monster to break up the extremist group behind the plan. They carried out raids in several states\u2014Rio de Janeiro, S\u00e3o Paulo, Mato Grosso, and Rio Grande do Sul\u2014seizing electronics and arresting others involved.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"919\" data-end=\"1135\">A third suspect was charged with terrorism, accused of planning a ritual killing of a child at the concert. This person believed Lady Gaga was a Satanist, though Lady Gaga has denied that and says she is a Christian.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1322\">Despite the threats, the concert went on without any problems. Security was tight, with about 5,200 military and police officers, drones, facial recognition, and metal detectors in use.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1566\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Lady Gaga and her team weren\u2019t told about the threat before the concert; they found out from the news the next day. A spokesperson said the team worked closely with law enforcement during the event and trusted the safety precautions in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"pointer-events-none h-px w-px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-edge=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian authorities have identified Luis da Silva, who was recently deported from the U.S. in April 2025, as the main\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1426],"class_list":["post-73227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-lady-gaga"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}