Austrian Pleads Guilty to Plotting Taylor Swift Terror Attack
An Austrian man has pleaded guilty to plotting a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024, leading to the cancellation of three shows. He acted out of allegiance to ISIS and planned to use knives, a machete, and a car bomb to kill concertgoers. The plot was foiled one day before the first concert after intelligence agencies detected suspicious online activity and discovered bomb-making materials in his home.
- ▪The defendant, a 21-year-old Austrian citizen named Beran A., pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
- ▪He had pledged allegiance to ISIS and intended to kill concertgoers with knives, a machete, and a car bomb.
- ▪The CIA detected his online searches for bomb-making instructions and hand grenades, leading to his arrest one day before the first concert.
- ▪Police found TATP explosives in his refrigerator and a calendar marking the concert dates.
- ▪Beran A. faces a potential sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison for terrorism-related charges.
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Austrian Pleads Guilty to Plotting Taylor Swift Terror Attack John Sexton 9:20 PM | April 30, 2026 Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP You may vaguely remember that back in 2024, Taylor Swift canceled three shows in Vienna, Austria after authorities uncovered a terror plot. It was a big deal at the time, in part because so many fans had already flown in for the concerts. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Two weeks after organizers scrubbed Taylor Swift's concerts in Vienna amid a foiled terror plot, the singer issued her first statement on the cancellations."Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating," she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday.
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