SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Brazilian Federal Police have launched an operation aimed at disrupting what they believe to be the initial stages of a terror plot on home soil.
Federal investigators say they have uncovered a scheme allegedly involving the recruitment of Brazilian citizens by Hezbollah to orchestrate assaults against the Brazilian Jewish community.
The intended targets reportedly included synagogues.
This counterterrorism operation has already led to the apprehension of two individuals in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state and home to the biggest local Jewish community. One was apprehended at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos International Airport having just landed from Lebanon.
Daniel Bialski, the vice president of Conib, the main Jewish organization in Brazil, shares his profound alarm over the threat, but expressed a sense of reassurance that the Federal Police are taking preemptive action.
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