Taylor Swift's Vienna concert canceled over bomb threat by teen
2:29 PM EDT, August 12, 2024
The cancellation of Taylor Swift's concert in Vienna shocked the artist's fans and sparked numerous controversies. The attorney of the main suspect in the case is trying to downplay their role in the potential attack. Her statements were shocking.
Recently, all of Austria has been abuzz with the canceled Taylor Swift concerts, which were supposed to take place at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion. The decision to cancel the events was made after reports of a planned attack by three teenagers, aged 15, 17, and 19.
The decision to cancel the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna due to the terrorist threat was made by the organizers and was not the result of an order from the authorities.
The police did everything in their power to make these events happen - emphasized the Austrian Ministry of the Interior.
More information on this topic has now appeared in Deutsche Welle. According to the attorney of the main suspect in the case, the teenager was not planning an attack during the concert; he was only considering it, but no decisions had been made.
Let's remember that the young man pledged allegiance to ISIS and confessed after the police searched his home, confiscating, among other things, chemicals. The attorney confirmed his membership in ISIS but also claimed that the 19-year-old only belonged to the organization for a month.
It was just a game. He said the bomb was not of good enough quality; it wouldn’t have worked - said attorney Ina-Christin Stiglitz to Reuters.
He quit his job for the attack
In recent days, more information has been revealed about 19-year-old Beran A., the main suspect in the planned attack on Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna.
The young man, a resident of Ternitz, worked at a large metal company in Lower Austria until the end of July. On July 25, he unexpectedly resigned, announcing that he had "big plans." These words, as it turned out later, could have been a hint of his intentions related to the terrorist attack.
According to reports from neighbors and security services, Beran A., an Austrian citizen of North Macedonian descent, had become radicalized in recent months. He grew a long beard and increasingly immersed himself in the propaganda of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), spending time on extremist online forums.
