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Rio de Janeiro.- A Brazilian court revoked this Saturday the warrant for preventive detention of the alleged leader of a group that is being investigated for allegedly planning an attack with homemade explosives during the Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro.
The decision was made following a request from the defense by magistrate Jaime Freitas da Silva of the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of the country, a state in which the individual in question, whose identity was not revealed, was serving the prison order after having been absent from a court hearing scheduled for last Monday.
In his arguments, the judge stated that the suspect "has not yet been named" in the investigation carried out by the Rio de Janeiro Police as a member of the group that allegedly organized the attack and that his involvement may be due to the use of his IP by the mastermind of the act.
However, the man must appear every two months at the judicial headquarters of the district where he resides to justify his activities, in addition to informing the court of any change of address or telephone number.
In the event of failure to comply with the precautionary measures established by the judge, you will return to prison.
Captured in operation Fake Monster
The individual in question had been arrested on Sunday, one day after Lady Gaga's mega-concert on Copacabana beach, and released on bail hours later. In addition to this suspect, the security forces in charge of the operation reported the arrest of a teenager who was arrested in Rio de Janeiro.
The police operation, dubbed 'Fake Monster', took place simultaneously in thirteen properties in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso.
The investigation identified that the suspects were "recruiting" teenagers via the internet to "promote attacks using improvised explosive devices".
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Those indicated used "fake profiles" on social media to pose as "members of the community of Lady Gaga fans, known worldwide as 'Little Monsters'," indicated in a note the Ministry of Justice, which collaborated in the action.
Authorities indicated that the group sought to attack during the concert of the renowned American vocalist, which gathered 2.1 million people on Copacabana beach, according to official estimates, to "gain notoriety on social media" and as part of a "challenge".
"The network promoted the radicalization of adolescents, the dissemination of hate crimes", mainly against the LGTBI community, "self-mutilation and violent content as a form of belonging and defiance among young people", the Ministry of Justice pointed out.
The police operation was triggered thanks to an alert from the Intelligence department of the Rio Police, which "identified digital cells aimed at inducing violent behavior in young people through encrypted languages and challenges with extremist symbology".
Lady Gaga offered on the Copacabana shore a massive free concert that lasted about two hours and took place under a strong security operation that involved about 5,000 agents.
