Austria files charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift attack
- - Austria files charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift attack
ReutersFebruary 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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General view shows outside of Happel stadium after Taylor Swift's three concerts this week were canceled after the government confirmed a planned attack at the stadium in Vienna, Austria, August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Elisabeth Mandl
VIENNA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Austrian prosecutors have filed terrorism-related and other charges against a now 21-year-old suspect arrested shortly before a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna that they said he planned to carry out an Islamist militant attack against.
The Vienna prosecutors' office planned to bring a criminal case against the unnamed suspect, whom Austrian media have identified as Beran A, accusing him of producing a small amount of the explosive triacetone triperoxide and attempting to purchase weapons illegally, it said in a statement on Monday.
Beran A's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Francois Murphy; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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