US EditionTeen Found Guilty of Plotting Terror Attack at Taylor Swift’s Vienna Shows
Mohammad A., radicalized online by Islamic State propaganda, was sentenced to 18 months suspended for aiding a terror plot that canceled three Vienna concerts last August.
- On August 27, 2025, a Berlin court found 16-year-old Syrian national Mohammad A. guilty of aiding in the preparation of a thwarted terrorist attack aimed at Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna in 2024.
- On August 7, 2024, Austrian authorities arrested three teenage suspects connected to plans involving explosives and knives, discovering bomb-making materials that led to the foiling of an attack.
- Mohammad A., radicalized by Islamic State propaganda, had coordinated via social media with an Austrian youth planning the attack and sent bomb-building instructions while connecting the accomplice with an IS member.
- After a closed-door trial, the court sentenced Mohammad A. to an 18-month suspended term, with officials stating he aimed to carry out an attack targeting a large number of people outside the stadium.
- The uncovered plot led to cancellation of three Swift concerts in Vienna, with the singer expressing fear and gratitude to authorities for preventing loss of life, highlighting a shift from grieving concerts to lives.
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Teen Found Guilty of Plotting Terror Attack at Taylor Swift’s Vienna Shows
A 16-year-old has been convicted in Germany of helping plan the foiled terrorist plot that targeted Taylor Swift’s planned Eras Tour stop in Vienna last year. A panel of judges in Berlin’s Higher Regional Court found the teenager, identified by prosecutors only as “Mohammed A,” guilty on Tuesday (Aug. 26) of preparing a serious act of violence that endangered the state and supporting a foreign terrorist organization. The judges issued a juveni…
A Berlin court has convicted a Syrian teenager of participating in the preparation of a terrorist attack on Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna. Judges have given him an 18-month suspended sentence.
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AlKhaleej TodayBerlin court convicts Syrian teen over IS-inspired Taylor Swift concert plot
BERLIN, Aug 27 — A Berlin court yesterday convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.Three dates in the US pop megastar’s record-breaking “Eras” tour were cancelled last summer after authorities warned of the plot.The 16-year-old defendant, named by prosecutors as Mohammad A., was found guilty of “preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state” and “supporti…
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