A Syrian national faces terror charges over his involvement in a plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert last year.
The accused, known as “Mohammad A” in the legal documentation, is accused of being part of at least one Islamist group, helping them develop the terror plan to attack the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna.
The plot led to the precautionary cancellation of all three of U.S. entertainer Swift’s shows in the Austrian capital.
Germany’s federal public prosecutor described Mohammad A as having
adhered since April 2024 at the latest to the ideology of the terrorist organisation 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.
Now Mohammad A stands accused of helping the main suspect in the case translate bomb-making instructions from Arabic and providing him with the text for an oath of allegiance to join IS. Other charges relate to contacting an overseas member of IS online.
The planned bloodbath at the concert fits part of a wider pattern of jihadis and nihilists—alarmed at the idea of girls and young women having fun—targeting children at Swift’s events or, similarly, Arina Grande fans in the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017.
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