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Neo-Nazi group has been threatening gays, Muslims, and black people since 2015.

Amid the "terrorist threat" at the Rio 2016 Games, the blog Descolonizações recalled that in September 2015, photos of posters from the neo-Nazi group Imperial Klans of America - Brazil were released, which had been spread throughout Niterói; the posters, plastered on lampposts and walls, threatened homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, communists, blacks, anarchists, and antifascists; "To date, no major operation by the Federal Police has broken telephone or electronic secrecy, no arrests have been made, and no president or secretary of public security of any elected or interim government has shown concern."

Amid the "terrorist threat" at the Rio 2016 Games, the blog Descolonizações recalled that in September 2015, photos of posters from the neo-Nazi group Imperial Klans of America - Brazil, which were spread throughout Niterói, were released; the posters, spread on lampposts and walls, threatened homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, communists, blacks, anarchists, and antifascists; "To date, no major operation by the Federal Police has broken telephone or electronic secrecy, no arrests have been made, and no president or secretary of public security of an elected or interim government has shown concern" (Photo: Aquiles Lins)

Rio 247 - At the moment when the Federal Police, under the interim government of Michel Temer, carried out a high-profile operation to arrest Brazilians suspected of planning alleged terrorist attacks at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the blog Descolonizações recalled that in September 2015, photos of posters from the neo-Nazi group Imperial Klans of America - Brazil, which were spread throughout Niterói, were released.

Posters plastered on lampposts and walls threatened homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, communists, blacks, anarchists, and antifascists. "To date, no major operation by the Federal Police has broken telephone or electronic secrecy, no arrests have been made, and no president or secretary of public security of an elected or interim government has shown concern," the blog notes.