Austria Files Terrorism Charges In Plot To Attack Taylor Swift Show

VIENNA — Austrian nationalist prosecutors revenge terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old suspect who they opportunity planned to transportation retired an onslaught connected 1 of superstar vocalist Taylor Swift’s concerts successful Vienna successful August 2024.

Vienna nationalist prosecutors said successful a connection that nan unnamed suspect had declared allegiance to nan Islamic State group by sharing propaganda worldly and videos via various messaging services.

Vienna prosecutors besides impeach nan suspect of having “obtained instructions connected nan net for nan building of a shrapnel explosive based connected nan explosive triacetone triperoxide” typically utilized by Islamic State, and of having produced a mini magnitude of nan explosive.

Prosecutors besides opportunity that nan suspect had made “several attempts” to bargain weapons illegally extracurricular nan state and to bring them to Austria.

Vienna nationalist prosecutors scheme to proceed pinch a criminal lawsuit against nan unnamed fishy successful Wiener Neustadt, a municipality adjacent nan Austrian capital.

The spokesperson for nan Vienna nationalist prosecutors agency confirmed that nan suspect is successful custody. Austrian media identified nan fishy arsenic Beran A. and said he was arrested successful August 2024.

Austrian authorities canceled 3 planned Swift shows aft they said they foiled an evident crippled to target nan performances.

The U.S. provided intelligence that fed into nan determination to cancel nan concerts.

“The United States has an enduring attraction connected our counterterrorism mission. We activity intimately pinch partners each complete nan world to show and disrupt threats. And truthful arsenic portion of that work, nan United States did stock accusation pinch Austrian partners to alteration nan disruption of a threat to Taylor Swift’s concerts location successful Vienna,” then-White House nationalist information spokesperson John Kirby said successful August 2024.