{"id":267464,"date":"2026-05-29T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=267464"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:59:35","slug":"austrian-who-planned-attack-at-taylor-swift-concert-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/267464\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian who planned attack at Taylor Swift concert sentenced to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man who admitted planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in ‌2024 to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of various, mainly terrorism-related offences, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Beran A, whose last name has not been made public in accordance with Austrian privacy rules, was arrested on Aug. 7, 2024, the day before the first of three planned concerts by the US pop star in the Austrian capital.<\/p>\n

All three dates were then cancelled.<\/p>\n

Beran A was found to have tried but failed to illegally buy weapons including a machinegun and hand grenade, and followed instructions in an Islamic State video entitled “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom” to produce a small amount of the explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP).<\/p>\n

He was also accused of plotting with two school friends to carry out a solo attack earlier in 2024 in separate Middle Eastern cities. He and co-defendant Arda K admitted they travelled ‌to Dubai ⁠and Istanbul respectively to carry out attacks but then did not follow through.<\/p>\n

When his trial opened last month, Beran A told the court that he roamed Dubai in March 2024 in search of victims to stab but had a panic attack when he tried to strike.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man who admitted planning a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in ‌2024 to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of various, mainly terrorism-related offences, Reuters writes. Beran A, whose last name has not been made public in accordance with Austrian privacy rules, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":267461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267465,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267464\/revisions\/267465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}