Austria files terror charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift attack

SCMP · 2026-02-16
Austria files terror charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift attack

Austrian prosecutors ⁠have filed terrorism-related and ⁠other charges against a now 21-year-old suspect arrested just before a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, who they said planned to carry out an Islamist militant attack. The Vienna prosecutors’ office plans to bring a criminal case against th