{"id":29539,"date":"2025-06-27T05:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29539"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:59:15","slug":"syrian-charged-over-plot-to-attack-taylor-swift-vienna-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/syrian-charged-over-plot-to-attack-taylor-swift-vienna-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian charged over plot to attack Taylor Swift Vienna concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, June 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany has charged a Syrian juvenile with supporting a foreign terrorist organization for helping to plan a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/austria-finds-chemicals-house-suspected-taylor-swift-concert-attack-plotter-2024-08-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foiled attack<\/a>\u00a0on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year, the prosecutor general said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Identified as Mohammad A, the suspect helped the would-be attacker by translating Arabic bomb-building instructions and putting him in contact with a member of the Islamic State militia online, according to the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Police made multiple arrests over a suspected plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital&#8217;s Ernst Happel Stadium, prompting the cancellation of all three of her shows there in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mohammad A has adhered to the ideology of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) since April 2024 at the latest,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Between mid-July and August 2024, he was in contact with a young Austrian who was planning a bomb attack on a concert by singer Taylor Swift in Vienna.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Austria&#8217;s coalition government earlier this month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/austrian-government-agrees-plan-allow-monitoring-secure-messaging-2025-06-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed<\/a>\u00a0on a plan to enable police to monitor suspects&#8217; secure messaging in order to thwart militant attacks, ending what security officials have said is a rare and dangerous blind spot for a European Union country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/germany-charges-syrian-national-connection-with-taylor-swift-concert-plot-2025-06-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reuters.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">BERLIN, June 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Germany has charged a Syrian juvenile with supporting a foreign terrorist organization for helping to plan a\u00a0foiled attack\u00a0on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year, the prosecutor general said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/06\/27\/syrian-charged-over-plot-to-attack-taylor-swift-vienna-concert\/\" title=\"Syrian charged over plot to attack Taylor Swift Vienna concert\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,6],"tags":[4802,1256,320,5978,4013,6072],"class_list":{"0":"post-29539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-world","10":"tag-al-qaeda","11":"tag-austria","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-islamic-state-group","14":"tag-taylor-swift","15":"tag-vienna","16":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29543,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29539\/revisions\/29543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}