US EditionMan Charged in Foiled Taylor Swift Vienna Concert Attack
The 21-year-old suspect is charged with terrorism, bomb-making, illegal weapons attempts, and ISIS propaganda related to a 2024 plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts, which drew more than 195,000 fans.
- Vienna public prosecutors on Monday announced terrorism-related charges against Beran A, a 21-year-old accused of planning an Islamist attack linked to Taylor Swift concerts in 2024, with the case to be brought in Wiener Neustadt, a town near Vienna.
- Prosecutors say the suspect declared allegiance to Islamic State and shared IS propaganda via online messaging services while receiving instructions to build a triacetone triperoxide bomb.
- Investigators allege he produced a small amount of triacetone triperoxide and tried to buy weapons illegally, while U.S. intelligence fed information that helped thwart the plot and led to cancelling three Vienna concerts with more than 195,000 expected concert-goers.
- The Vienna public prosecutors' office confirmed the defendant is in custody since his August 2024 arrest and faces terrorism and other charges with up to 20 years in prison; three arrested suspects were teenagers at the time.
- Investigators note links to other planned attacks abroad, including alleged plots in Dubai and Istanbul, while last year a Berlin court convicted a Syrian teenager tied to the Vienna concert plot.
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Austrian prosecution filed charges against the 21-year-old suspect planning an attack on the Taylor Swift show in Vienna in 2024
The Austrian authorities formalized charges of terrorism against the main suspect in the plan, who in August 2024 was considered “
Austrian man faces 20 years for alleged plot to bomb Taylor Swift concert
A 21-year-old man from Austria has been charged with terrorism after officials say they disrupted his plan to target a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria last August, prosecutors confirmed on Monday.
Alleged Plotter in Taylor Swift Concert Attack Scheme Charged
A man allegedly involved in plotting a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Austria is now formally facing terrorism charges, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors in Vienna say a 21-year-old Austrian man, not publicly named, pledged support to the Islamic State terrorist group online and planned an...
Suspect in Taylor Swift Vienna concert plot faces terrorism charges
VIENNA — Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old defendant who they say planned to carry out an attack on one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in August 2024.
Austria Man Charged With Terrorism for Planned Attack at Taylor Swift Concert
Scott Eisen/TAS23/Getty Images More details are emerging about the alleged terror attack that was planned for Taylor Swift’s Vienna Eras Tour concerts. Swift was scheduled to perform three shows at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium from August 8 to August 10 before the authorities learned of a suspected threat. The shows were subsequently canceled as two suspects were taken into custody in connection to the crime. “Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour Vienn…
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