VIENNA: Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related expenses Monday (Feb 16) in opposition to a 21-year-old defendant who they are saying deliberate to hold out an assault on one among famous person singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in August 2024.
Vienna public prosecutors stated in a press release that the unnamed defendant had declared allegiance to the Islamic State group by sharing propaganda materials and movies through numerous messaging providers.
Vienna prosecutors additionally accuse the defendant of getting “obtained directions on the web for the development of a shrapnel bomb primarily based on the explosive triacetone triperoxide” usually utilized by IS, and of getting produced a small quantity of the explosive.
Prosecutors additionally say that the defendant had made “a number of makes an attempt” to purchase weapons illegally outdoors the nation and to convey them to Austria.
Vienna public prosecutors plan to proceed with a legal case in opposition to the unnamed suspect in Wiener Neustadt, a city close to the Austrian capital.
The spokesperson for the Vienna public prosecutors workplace confirmed to The Related Press that the defendant is in custody. Austrian media recognized the suspect as Beran A. and stated he was arrested in August 2024.
