Plans for Attack on Vienna Swift Concert: Indictment in Germany

The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe has filed charges against a person considered to be a suspected accomplice of the main suspect, Beran A. He is currently in pre-trial detention in Vienna. The case involves a potentially thwarted attack on a concert by the famous pop singer Taylor Swift, which was planned for early August 2024 at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna. Authorities are investigating the extent to which this person was involved in the alleged attack plans and what role they might have played in the preparations. The investigations are focused on uncovering further details about the possible background and connections between the two suspects to gain a more comprehensive picture of the intentions and the threat situation.

This was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the authorities to the APA on Friday. The youth is said to have supported Beran A. in the attack preparations.

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The native Syrian is said to have been in close contact with Beran A. since mid-July 2024. Until his arrest, he is alleged to have translated a bomb-making manual from Arabic for the 20-year-old and established an internet connection to an IS member abroad. Beran A., who lives in Ternitz in the Wiener Neustadt district, is also said to have received a text for an oath of allegiance to IS from the young Syrian, which the 20-year-old used to officially join the radical Islamic terrorist group.

The charges against the Syrian were reportedly filed on June 17 with the State Security Senate of the Berlin Court of Appeal, according to the APA. The young man will have to answer for supporting a terrorist organization abroad and for preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state.

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