The planned attack on Lady Gaga concert in Brazil is being thwarted, the police say

The police in Brazil said on Sunday that they had thwarted a conspiracy to explode explosives during a Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro, an event that, according to some estimates, attracted more than two million people.

Rio de Janeiros Civil Police has made the announcement A day after the free concert by Lady Gaga on the beach of Copacabana. The show went without a disturbance and a representative for the pop star later told The Associated Press That she had learned about the threat of news media reports.

The police said that the group behind the thorough conspiracy would have been to recruit participants, including teenagers, to carry out attacks with improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails. It said that the goals of the group of children, adolescents and members of the LGBTQ community include.

The leader of the group was arrested in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul for illegal possession of a firearm, and a teenager was arrested for storing child pornography, the police said in the announcement. It was not immediately clear whether one of the person had been charged.

Representatives of Lady Gaga, a vocal supporter of LGBTQ rights, did not respond to an investigation on Sunday evening.

Her show at the weekend was part of Rio de Janeiro’s strategy to attract big acts to play huge free concerts on the beach of Copacabana. Madonna played one last year.

Jack Nicas contributed reporting.