{"id":508650,"date":"2026-05-29T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:23:14","slug":"man-21-jailed-for-planning-terror-attack-on-taylor-swift-concert-in-austria-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/508650\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (21) jailed for planning terror attack on Taylor Swift concert in Austria \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/austria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/austria\">Austrian<\/a> court \u200bon Thursday sentenced \u200ba \u206021-year-old who \u200cadmitted \u200cplanning a foiled \u200bIslamist \u2060attack on \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/taylor-swift\">\u200bTaylor \u200cSwift<\/a> concert \u200bin Vienna \u2060in 2024 \u2060to \u200b15 years in prison, \u200cfinding him \u2060guilty of various \u200cmainly terrorism-related \u200boffences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Beran A, whose last name has not been made public in accordance with Austrian privacy rules, was arrested on \u200bAugust 7th, 2024, the day before the first of three planned concerts by the US pop star in the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">All three dates \u2060were then cancelled, to the dismay of fans and of Swift, who wrote afterwards that it \u200cwas \u201cdevastating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Beran \u200cA, \u200bwho is Austrian, pleaded guilty to charges related to the planned attack, which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. He covered his face \u2060with a ring binder as he entered the \u200bcourtroom to avoid being identifiable in pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Prosecutors say \u200bhe tried but failed to illegally buy weapons including a machine gun and hand grenade, and followed instructions in \u200can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/islamic-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/islamic-state\">Islamic State<\/a> video posted online to \u200bmake a small amount of the explosive triacetone triperoxide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He was also accused at the same trial of \u2060plotting separately with two schoolfriends to \u2060carry out a solo \u200battack each earlier in 2024 in separate Middle Eastern cities. He and co-defendant Arda K have admitted that they travelled to Dubai and Istanbul respectively to carry out attacks but then did not follow through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They have denied, however, providing moral support to the third man, who was arrested in Mecca on suspicion of stabbing a security official at the holy city\u2019s Grand Mosque. He is still in custody in Saudi Arabia. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Austrian court \u200bon Thursday sentenced \u200ba \u206021-year-old who \u200cadmitted \u200cplanning a foiled \u200bIslamist \u2060attack on \u200ba \u200bTaylor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[6929,18,117,19,17,127680,973],"class_list":["post-508650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-austria","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-islamic-state","tag-taylor-swift"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116657848734770241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}