London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that the city was looking forward to welcoming Taylor Swift back to Wembley arena for five concert dates next week despite the cancellation of her concerts in Austria.
Khan said the capital and the police had learned lessons from the Manchester Arena attack — a suicide bombing that killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in northwest England in 2017.
"He wanted to carry out an attack in the area outside the stadium, killing as many people as possible using the knives or even using the explosive devices he had made," said Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence, citing the 19-year-old's confession. No other suspects are being sought, though a 15-year-old who had been in contact with both suspects was also interrogated by police, Karner said.Concert organizer Barracuda Music said in an Instagram post late Wednesday that it had "no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone's safety."
Europe is enamored with the American superstar, with the German town of Gelsenkirchen renaming itself "Swiftkirchen" before its mid-July concerts. "The situation surrounding the apparently planned terror attack in Vienna was very serious," he wrote. But he added that, thanks to cooperation between police and Austrian and foreign intelligence, "the threat could be recognized early on, tackled and a tragedy prevented."The Vienna stadium had been sold out for the planned concerts, Austrian news agency APA reported, with an estimated 170,000 fans expected for the concerts in Austria.
"I was completely terrified to go on this time because I didn't know how we were going to keep 3 million fans safe over seven months," she told the magazine. "There was a tremendous amount of planning, expense, and effort put into keeping my fans safe." Two Flair passengers in B.C. were told a bird strike cancelled their flight. Then they did their own research
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