Brazilian police have discovered a plan to blow up a bridge between Sao Paulo and the coast and confiscate the explosives

The confession of a prisoner who decided to speak out after being threatened with death by his former accomplices allowed the civil police of São Paulo to uncover and destroy a criminal plot to blow up one of the large bridges connecting the capital São Paulo. Brazil’s largest metropolis, located on the coast of this Brazilian state.

The man, who surrendered to police because he felt it was safer to be arrested than to be released onto the streets after breaking away from the rest of the gang, pointed out the location where the gang hid the explosives.

The Special Operations Group (GOE) went to the location indicated by the man, a house in the Riascho Grande area, in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, which is at the beginning of the Anchieta Imigrantes system, a complex connecting São Bernardo do Campo . Paulo went to the coast, namely Santos, Praia Grande, Guaruja and other cities of the so-called Baixada Santista, and discovered and confiscated large quantities of explosives and detonation equipment.

A man at the scene was detained. Already with great experience, he had with him, in addition to explosives, an automatic pistol, a combat rifle, a lot of ammunition and bags of drugs, hidden both in the room and in a secret hiding place in a car parked nearby. into the property.

The prisoner who reported the plan could not tell the police or the judge before whom he was present which bridge would be blown up by the criminal gang to which he belonged, and sentenced him to death after a disagreement, but, be that as it may, it could become the cause of a great tragedy.

There are several bridges, some of which are large, between the capital São Paulo and the coastal cities. Tens of thousands of drivers pass through them every day, and on hot weekends their numbers reach hundreds of thousands, when many São Paulo residents descend the Serra do Mar to the beaches of coastal towns.