{"id":30846,"date":"2026-06-01T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:43:40","slug":"man-jailed-for-15-years-over-plot-to-attack-taylor-swift-concert-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2026\/06\/01\/man-jailed-for-15-years-over-plot-to-attack-taylor-swift-concert-in-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for 15 years over plot to attack Taylor Swift concert in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 21-year-old Austrian man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for planning a jihadist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during the US singer’s Eras tour in August 2024.<\/b><\/p>\n

The man, named only as Beran A in line with Austrian privacy laws, was also found guilty of a string of other terrorism-related offences.<\/p>\n

He was arrested after a tip-off from the CIA just before the first of three sold-out Taylor Swift concerts was due to take place in Vienna’s Ernst Happl stadium.<\/p>\n

All three Austrian shows were immediately cancelled, to the dismay of almost 200,000 fans and the singer herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Swift previously described how her record-breaking Eras Tour had narrowly “dodged a massacre situation”. A tour documentary revealed the US singer had learned about the bomb plot while travelling to Austria.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Beran A had become radicalised and had sworn allegiance to jihadist group Islamic State (IS). They said he tried but had not succeeded in buying weapons illegally, including a machine gun and a hand grenade.<\/p>\n

Court psychiatrist Peter Hoffmann said Beran A showed no signs of mental illness, adding that there was “no psychiatric explanation” for his radicalisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was on trial in Wiener Neustadt, a city south of Vienna, with another 21-year-old man named as Arda K from Slovakia, accused of being part of a cell with jihadist group Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n

Arda K – who was not involved in the plot against the concert – was sentenced to 12 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Beran A told the court earlier on Thursday that he was sorry, before the jury retired for several hours to consider its verdicts.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the foiled attack, Taylor Swift said it had\u00a0filled her with “a new sense of fear”<\/a>\u00a0– and that the cancellations left her with a “tremendous amount of guilt”.<\/p>\n

But the US mega-star added on Instagram: “I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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