Eco-terrorists who detonated pressure cooker bomb last week ‘declare war’ on the Olympics in revenge for bulldozing wildlife
The “Sociedade Secreta Silvestre” organisation – who claimed responsibility for detonating a pressure cooker packed with metal in Brasilia – say they will bomb the Olympics
A GROUP of eco-terrorists who detonated a nail bomb in Brazil last week have issued a chilling threat to the Rio Olympics – in revenge for ripping up the city to make way for the games.
Extremists at the “Sociedade Secreta Silvestre” organisation – who claimed responsibility for detonating a pressure cooker packed with metal in Brasilia – say they will bomb the Olympics.
They have “declared war” after Rio games chiefs failed to fulfil promises to plant 24 million trees in the city and clean up the polluted Guanabara Bay.
The terrorists were also angered after an Olympic golf course was built on 58,000 square metres of natural park for the games – which had environmentalism as the opening ceremony theme.
A manifesto on the group’s website read: “We will use the Rio 2016 Olympic Games to attack and declare war on hyper-civilisation and its dead world of concrete and steel.
“Our similar units in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are as well prepared as the tens of thousands of cowards mobilised to strengthen public security for the Games.
“And guarantee that in the states where events occur they will not pass unharmed but will be severely attacked.
“If you don’t want to be within a blast zone, lock yourselves in your basements and stay there.
“Tourists, if you don’t want to share the same end, go back to your rotting cities. You are not welcome nor will you ever be welcome here, except by our explosives.
"We know there are gaps in security and they will be properly used.”
They claimed to be behind the blast of a pressure cooker device in a car park outside a shopping centre in Brasilia, a few hundred metres from the hotel of the host's Olympic men’s football team.
The explosion, last week, did not cause any injuries.
Brazilian authorities have played down the threat – but security experts were worried.
Peter Martin, a global security consultant, told The Sun: "Despite all the focus on IS these guys are the only ones to have successfully detonated a bomb with actual intent to do some real damage.
“They’re a pretty serious threat.
“This seems to have been suppressed by the government and media in Brazil. Environmental groups wanted a lot of things out of the Olympics they have not got.
“They are also the kind of militants who are very difficult to track.”
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