{"id":2285037,"date":"2026-02-17T02:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285037"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:26:36","slug":"taylor-swift-concert-attack-plot-leads-to-terrorism-charges-against-21-year-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/taylor-swift-concert-attack-plot-leads-to-terrorism-charges-against-21-year-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift concert attack plot leads to terrorism charges against 21-year-old man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VIENNA<\/strong> \u2013 Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old defendant who they say planned to carry out an attack<\/a> on one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Vienna public prosecutors said in a statement that the unnamed defendant had declared allegiance to the Islamic State group<\/a> by sharing propaganda material and videos via various messaging services.<\/p>\n

Vienna prosecutors also accuse the defendant of having \u201cobtained instructions on the internet for the construction of a shrapnel bomb based on the explosive triacetone triperoxide\u201d typically used by IS, and of having produced a small amount of the explosive.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors also say that the defendant had made “several attempts\u201d to buy weapons illegally outside the country and to bring them to Austria.<\/p>\n

Vienna public prosecutors plan to proceed with a criminal case against the unnamed suspect in Wiener Neustadt, a town near the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson for the Vienna public prosecutors office confirmed to The Associated Press that the defendant is in custody. Austrian media identified the suspect as Beran A. and said he was arrested in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Austrian authorities canceled three planned Taylor Swift shows<\/a> in Vienna in August 2024 after they said they foiled an apparent plot to target the performances.<\/p>\n

The U.S. provided intelligence that fed into the decision to cancel the concerts. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States has an enduring focus on our counterterrorism mission. We work closely with partners all over the world to monitor and disrupt threats. And so as part of that work, the United States did share information with Austrian partners to enable the disruption of a threat to Taylor Swift\u2019s concerts there in Vienna,\u201d then-White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in August 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.click2houston.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VIENNA \u2013 Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges Monday against a 21-year-old defendant who they say planned to carry out an attack on one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in August 2024. Vienna public prosecutors said in a statement that the unnamed defendant had declared allegiance to the Islamic State group by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,442758,23084,22814],"class_list":["post-2285037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-john-kirby","tag-taylor-swift","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Taylor-Swift-concert-attack-plot-leads-to-terrorism-charges-against.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285039,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285037\/revisions\/2285039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}