Swift assassin loses his star lawyer

Beran A., the 19-year-old Lower Austrian, who was supposed to have planned a terrorist attack on one of the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna last summer, and his defender, the Viennese star lawyer Werner Tomanek, separated from each other. Like the proverbial lion, Tomanek had fought over the past few months to portray his client as "actually harmless"; as a fellow who only talked about terror plans but never intended to carry them out.A defense …