Man jailed for 15 years over plot to attack Taylor Swift concert in Vienna

A 21-year-old Austrian man, who has admitted plotting a jihadist onslaught connected a Taylor Swift performance successful Vienna during the singer's Eras circuit successful August 2024, has been sentenced to 15 years successful prison.

The man, named lone arsenic Beran A successful enactment with Austrian privateness laws, besides admitted different terrorism-related offences, including an onslaught successful Mecca.

He told the tribunal earlier connected Thursday that helium was sorry, earlier the assemblage astatine a tribunal successful Wiener Neustadt retired for respective hours to see its verdicts.

Beran A was arrested aft a tip-off from the CIA, conscionable earlier the archetypal of 3 sold-out Taylor Swift concerts that were expected to instrumentality spot successful Vienna's Ernst Happl stadium.

All 3 Austrian shows were instantly cancelled, to the dismay of astir 200,000 fans, and the vocalist herself.

Prosecutors said Beran A had go radicalised and had sworn allegiance to jihadist radical Islamic State (IS). They said helium tried but had not succeeded successful buying weapons illegally, including a instrumentality weapon and a manus grenade.

Court psychiatrist Peter Hoffmann said that Beran A showed nary signs of intelligence illness, adding that determination was "no psychiatric explanation" for his radicalisation.

Beran A, and different 21-year-old antheral named arsenic Arda K from Slovakia, went connected proceedings successful Wiener Neustadt accused of being portion of a compartment with jihadist radical Islamic State (IS). Arda K was not progressive successful the Taylor Swift plot.

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