Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two people have arrested on their legs in relation to an alleged plot to donate a bomb in a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro.
Saturday’s event attracted about 2 million fans to Copacabana Beach.
The State Police of Rio de Janeiro said he had worked with the Ministry of Justice to interrupt an attack allegedly planned by a group that was disseminating the hate speech against the LGBTQ community. Police said the group sought to radicalize and recruit adolescents to carry out attacks with Molotov cocktails and improvised explosives.
“The plan was treated as a ‘collective challenge’ with the aim of gaining notoriety in social networks,” police said.
The authorities said they arrested two people in relation to the planned attack: the alleged leader of the group for positions of possession of illegal weapons in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and a teenager for child pornography positions.
The concert was the biggest show of Gaga’s career.
“Tonight, we are making history,” Lady Gage told a crowd screaming. “Thank you for making history with me.”
A Lady Gaga spokesman told CBS News that the team learned of the alleged threats through media reports.
“Before the duration of the show, there are no known security groups, or any police or authorities to Lady Gaga regarding any potential risk,” said the spokesman. “His team worked in close collaboration with the application of the law through the planning and execution of the concert and all parties trusted in current security measures.”
The mother monster, as it is known, started the program just after 10 pm local time with the 2011 song “Bloody Mary”. The screams of joy rose from tight fans who sang and danced shoulder shoulder in rapid sand stretching.
The organizers of the concert said that 2.1 million people attended the show, which was funded by the city of Rio in an effort to revitalize the economy. In a recent report, the City Council of Rio said that it should bring at least 600 million reais, or approximately $ 106 million.
For Gaga, the performance was also an opportunity to promote its next Tour “Mayhem Ball”With songs from his latest album Mayhem. The album debuted at number 1 at Billboard 200 when it was launched in early March and includes new successes such as “Abracadabra”.
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Lady Gaga also made an older number or classics in her free show on Saturday, including “Poker Face” and “Alejandro”, changing between a variety of dresses, including one with the color of the Brazilian flag.
Some fans, many of them young, arrived at the beach at dawn to secure a good place, armed with snacks and drinks. They spent the day under a burning sun, while Thers perched on trees, determined to get a panoramic view.
“Today is the best day of my life,” said Manoela Dobes, a 27 -year -old designer who wore a dress stuck with a photograph of when she with Lady Gaga in the United States in 2019. “It is surreal to be here.”
Madonna also turned Copacabana beach into a massive dance floor last year.
Large -scale performances are part of an effort led by the City Council to boost economic activity after the Carnival and New Year’s festivities and the next San Juan Day celebrations in June.
“It brings activity to the duration of the city of what was previously consulted in the low season: filling hotels and increasing spending on bars, restaurants and retailers, generating jobs and income for the population,” said Osmar Lima, the secretary of the city in relation to economic development.
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Similar concerts are being programmed every year in May at least until 2028.
Lady Gaga arrived in Rio in the early hours of Tuesday. The city has been alive with Gaga-Mania since then, since it prepared to welcome the pop star for its first show in the country since 2012. River subway employees danced in Lady Gaga’s success song in 2008 “Lovegame” and instructed Saturday. A free exhibition that celebrates his career was exhausted.
Although the vast majority of attendees were from Rio, the event also attracted Brazilians from all over the country and international visitors.
More than 500,000 tours took the city in the days before the program, more than double the initial forecast, according to data from the local bus station and Tom Jobim, the City Council said in a statement on Friday.
Ingrid Serrano, a 30 -year -old engineer, traveled from Colombia to Brazil to attend the show.
“I am 100% fan of Lady Gaga all my life,” said Serrano, who wore a shirt with the extravagant costumes of Lady Gaga over the years.
For her, the representatives of the mega star “total freedom of expression who wants without shame.”
River officials have a history of organizing large concerts in Copacabana Beach. Madonna’s program attracted approximately 1.6 million fans last year, while 4 million people flooded on the 1994 New Year’s Eve show by Rod Stewart in 1994. According to Guinness World Records, that was the largest free rock concert in history.
To ensure that fans could listen to the songs, sixteen sound towers extended along the beach.
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The river state security plan included 3,300 Army members, 1,500 police officers and 400 firefighters.
Among those present were Lady Gaga’s admirers who remember their disappointment in 2017, when the artist canceled a scheduled performance in the last minute due to health problems.
Ricardo Filho, who has been a fan since childhood, said it was worth the wait.
“She is the best artist in the world,” said the 25 -year -old, as “Gaga channels, I love you” in Portuguese rose from the crowd behind him.