Did you hear about this?! German authorities recently charged a teenager over a failed terror plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last August.
The Syrian teenager, identified as “Mohammed A”, was indicted on charges of supporting a foreign terror group and helping another suspect plan a terrorist attack. The teen is not in custody.
Germany’s federal public prosecutor released this statement, “Mohammad A has adhered since April 2024 at the latest to the ideology of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Between mid-July and August 2024, he was in contact with a young adult from Austria who was planning a bomb attack on a concert by singer Taylor Swift in Vienna.”
The teenager is merely one of several suspects who were arrested last August, only days before three Taylor Swift concerts August 8 to 10 at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Austria.
As you’d expect, those three Vienna shows were cancelled hours after police announced they’d foiled an ISIS plot to attack one of the three concerts. Swift said the cancellations were ‘devasting’ and said she was “grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives”.
The main suspect of the terror plot, at the time, a 19 year old was arrested in Ternitz, south of Vienna. The CIA tipped-off local police. A second person was also arrested around the same time and a third suspect a few days later.
The 19 year old confessed to planning the attack shortly after being arrested. When police searched his house, they found chemicals, explosives, knives and machete knives. Authorities also identified Islamic State and al-Qaida material at the residence.
