Two people were arrested under suspicion of carrying out a terrorist attack during Lady Gaga‘s record-breaking free concert in Brazil on Monday, according to CNN.
The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro had noted the pair planned to attack to “gain notoriety on social media” using “improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails.” It was also alleged that the duo was targeting LGBTQ+ people as well as trying to recruit teenagers to aid in the attack, allegedly posing as “Little Monsters,” the namesake of Lady Gaga’s fandom.
Brazilian police conducted an extensive search of nine addresses and found a third person who, according to authorities, was also planning something troubling due to conspiracy theorists.
“He said that the singer was a Satanist and that he was going to perform a Satanist ritual too, killing a child during the show,” Rio de Janeiro Civil Police secretary, officer Felipe Curi, told CNN.
Lady Gaga, a staunch advocate of the LGBTQ+ community her entire career, made history with her concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this past Saturday. An estimated 2.1 million concertgoers attended Gaga’s concert is the highest attended by a female artist. The concert broke Madonna’s prior mark at the same venue in 2024, which had to 1.6 million attendees
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