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Austrian pleads guilty to ISIL-planned attack on Taylor Swift concert
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Austrian pleads guilty to ISIL-planned attack on Taylor Swift concert

Al Jazeera·Al Jazeera Staff·about 1 month ago
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Beran A admits conspiring in other plans abroad as well as planning attack on Swift’s Vienna concert. A 21-year-old Austrian man has pleaded guilty to planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna that was foiled the day before the event in August 2024. As his trial opened in the Austrian capital on Tuesday, Beran A admitted the charges relating to the conspiracy to mount the attack. Three dates in Swift’s record-breaking tour were cancelled when authorities warned of the plot. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Trump comments on deaths of US filmmaker Rob Reiner and wife cause outrage list 2 of 3 Police arrest Rob Reiner’s son after director and wife found dead list 3 of 3 Tom Stoppard, celebrated British playwright, dies aged 88 end of list The defendant is also accused, alongside Slovak national Arda K, of planning attacks in the Middle East that they did not go through with, and of providing moral support to a third man ‌who has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a knife…

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