Police discovered explosives, knives, air pistol, counterfeit notes and Islamic State propaganda at home of suspect as discovery of terror plot led to cancellation of three concerts
Three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria have been cancelled after police foiled a 'very serious' terror plot. Photograph: JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images
Security services said the perpetrator had no ticket for the concert but planned to “kill himself and a large group of people either today or tomorrow” near the stadium.Man who saw abuser jailed says trial was ‘like being abused all over again’ Workers remove barriers on August 8, 2024 in front of the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, after the three scheduled Taylor Swift concerts were cancelled after the discovery of a bomb plot. Photograph: Florian Wieser/Getty Images
Officials in Vienna said they had detained two other young men, with Austrian-Turkish backgrounds, and that “at present we are not seeking any further people on the run”. The 17-year-old had recently broken up with his girlfriend while the 19-year-old man, after taking an oath of allegiance to IS last month, had “directed his focus on preparations for a terrorist attack and he changed his appearance completely”.Beaded bracelets hang on a"friendship bracelet tree" to pay tribute to Taylor Swift after her three concerts were cancelled in Vienna. Photograph: Eva Manhart/Getty ImagesPolitical scientist Natascha Strobl wrote that she was “devastated”.
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