Austria files charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift attack

Reuters
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Austrian prosecutors have filed terrorism-related and other charges against a suspect, now 21, who was arrested shortly before a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, where they said he planned to carry out an Islamist militant attack.

The Vienna prosecutors’ office plans to bring a criminal case against the unnamed suspect in Wiener Neustadt, a town near Vienna, accusing him of producing a small amount of the explosive triacetone triperoxide and attempting to purchase weapons illegally, it said in a statement Monday.

The statement referred to the suspect’s arrest in August 2024, the same month as three planned Swift concerts were canceled at short notice…

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