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Man jailed 15 years over planned attack at The Eras Tour concert

Austrian court has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 15 years in prison for plotting a jihadist attack targeting a concert by Taylor Swift during her The Eras Tour stop in Vienna. The suspect, identified under Austrian privacy laws as Beran A., was convicted on multiple terrorism-related charges after admitting involvement in the planned attack ahead of Swift’s scheduled August 2024 performances at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium. READ ALSO: Skepta r…
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An Austrian court sentenced a 21-year-old man on Thursday to 15 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in August 2024 in Vienna, and to 12 years in prison at the same age as his accomplice. During the trial at the Wiener Neustadt State Court, the defendants, Beran A. and Ardan K., respectively, were also found guilty of having instigated another partner, Hasan E., to commit a terrorist attack with a knife in Sa…

In the trial of a planned attack on Taylor Swift's concert in the summer of 2024, two 21-year-olds were sentenced to 15 or 12 years in prison on Thursday. Deradicalization expert Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw sees the sentences as a deterrent.

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ORF.at News broke the news in Vienna, Austria on Friday, May 29, 2026.
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