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Austrian nationalist prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old suspect who they say planned to attack one of superstar vocalist Taylor Swift's concerts successful Vienna successful August 2024.
Vienna nationalist prosecutors said successful a connection that the unnamed suspect had declared allegiance to the Islamic State group by sharing propaganda worldly and videos via assorted messaging services.
Vienna prosecutors besides impeach the suspect of having "obtained instructions connected the net for the operation of a shrapnel weaponry based connected the explosive triacetone triperoxide" typically utilized by IS, and of having produced a tiny magnitude of the explosive.
Prosecutors besides accidental that the suspect had made "several attempts" to bargain weapons illegally extracurricular the state and to bring them to Austria.
FILE - Austrian constabulary officers ticker swifts gathering successful the metropolis centre successful Vienna connected Aug.8, 2024.
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Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, caput of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence, said astatine the clip of the suspect's apprehension that helium wanted to termination "as galore radical arsenic imaginable utilizing the knives oregon adjacent utilizing the explosive devices helium had made."
Vienna nationalist prosecutors program to proceed with a transgression lawsuit against the unnamed fishy successful Wiener Neustadt, a municipality adjacent the Austrian capital.
The spokesperson for the Vienna nationalist prosecutors' bureau confirmed to The Associated Press that the suspect is successful custody. Austrian media identified the fishy arsenic Beran A. and said helium was arrested successful August 2024.
A full of 3 suspects had been arrested and charged successful transportation with the plot, including a teenage lad who was convicted successful a German tribunal past year of preparing a superior enactment of unit and supporting a violent enactment of unit abroad. The Berlin tribunal gave Mohammad A., a Syrian national, a suspended 18-month sentence.
Austrian authorities canceled 3 planned Swift shows successful Vienna successful August 2024 aft they said they foiled an evident crippled to people the Eras Tour performances.
A instrumentality of Taylor Swift wears a t-shirt with her prima during the "Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Picnic" connected Aug. 7, 2024, successful a nationalist plot successful Vienna, Austria, anterior to her 3 scheduled concerts.
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The U.S. provided quality that fed into the determination to cancel the concerts. The determination near tens of thousands of Swift's fans, galore of whom had traveled to Vienna from elsewhere successful the state oregon overseas specifically to spot a show, devastated. Concert organizers successful Austria said they had expected up to 65,000 fans wrong the Ernst Happel Stadium astatine each performance and arsenic galore arsenic 30,000 onlookers outside.
"The United States has an enduring absorption connected our counterterrorism mission. We enactment intimately with partners each implicit the satellite to show and disrupt threats. And truthful arsenic portion of that work, the United States did stock accusation with Austrian partners to alteration the disruption of a menace to Taylor Swift's concerts determination successful Vienna," then-White House nationalist information spokesperson John Kirby said successful August 2024.
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