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Germany accused the Syrian juvenile of supporting foreign terrorist groups for supporting foreign terrorist groups for supporting plans for an attack on the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year, the prosecutor general said in a statement Friday.
The suspect, identified as Mohammad A, assisted the attackers by translating Arabic bomb construction instructions and contacting members of the Islamic National Guard online.
Police made multiple arrests for suspicious conspiracy to attack Taylor Swift’s concert at the Austrian capital Ernst Happill Stadium, urging her to cancel all three shows last August.
“Mohammad A has adhered to the ideology of the latest terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) since April 2024,” the statement said.
“Between mid-July and August 2024, he contacted a young Austrian who had planned a bomb attack on a concert by Vienna singer Taylor Swift.”
Earlier this month, the Austrian coalition government agreed to a plan that would allow police to monitor suspects’ safe messages to stop militant attacks, ending what security authorities said was a rare and dangerous blind spot for the European Union nation.
