US EditionGerman court convicts teen for supporting plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna
The 16-year-old Syrian, radicalized by Islamic State propaganda, received an 18-month suspended sentence after aiding a foiled attack on Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna last year.
- A German court in Berlin convicted 16-year-old Syrian Mohammad A. on August 26, 2025, for helping prepare a foiled attack on Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna.
- The attack plot emerged from online Islamic State propaganda, leading to charges in June and cancellation of three Swift shows on August 7, 2024, in Vienna.
- Mohammad A. confessed at a closed trial to sending bomb-building videos and connecting the Austrian attacker to an IS member, while Austrian police made three related arrests.
- He received a suspended 18-month sentence under juvenile law matching prosecutors’ requests, and the sentence can be appealed, reflecting his support for IS ideology.
- The case prompted Austria to enhance police ability to monitor secure messaging to prevent militant threats, addressing a previous security blind spot in the EU.
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Syrian teen convicted in Taylor Swift concert terrorist plot avoids jail time
A German court convicted a 16-year-old Syrian national on Tuesday for supporting a thwarted terror plan to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The suspect, identified solely as Mohammad A. due to German privacy laws, was found guilty of planning a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad, as reported by The Associated Press, and received a suspended 18-month sentence, which means he’ll avoid jail t…
In connection with the attack plans on concerts by the US musician Taylor Swift 2024 in Vienna, a youth in Berlin was sentenced to a probation sentence of one and a half years.
On Tuesday, the German court sentenced a Syrian teenager to a year and a half suspended prison for having participated in the preparation of an Islamist attack, finally foiled, against Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna in the summer of 2024.
Juvenile involved in Taylor Swift concert plot gets suspended sentence in Germany
FRANKFURT - A Berlin court on Tuesday gave a 16-year old who helped prepare a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year a suspended 1-1/2 year prison sentence under juvenile criminal law. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A 16-year-old teenager has been sentenced on Tuesday in Berlin to one and a half years in prison suspended for his involvement in plans to commit an attack on a concert by singer Taylor Swift in Austria last year, which caused the cancellation of several star shows.
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