Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes described the group as "absolute amateurs", adding that their detention was a preventative measure. Officials said the suspects had tried to make contact with Islamic State, but were not members of the organization. The arrested people were all Brazilian citizens and were detained in 10 different states. They had been in contact via mobile messaging services like WhatsApp and Telegram, police said. Thursday's developments came a week after 84 people were killed, including scores of children, when a truck ploughed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice. Brazil's institutional security minister, Sergio Etchegoyen, said after the Nice attack that security would be raised to "another level" for the August 5-21 Games.
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