Suspect in Taylor Swift Vienna concert attack plot convicted and sentenced

A court in Austria has convicted the man accused of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024.

Suspect in Taylor Swift Vienna concert attack plot convicted and sentenced. A court in Austria has convicted the man accused of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024. The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on multiple charges, including those related to the concert. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The plot was stopped, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three planned performances in August 2024. Beran A.’s attorney said he admitted to the charges related to the plot during the opening day of the trial, which began in April. In brief final words to the court before it adjourned to consider a verdict on Thursday, Beran A. said: “I would just like to say that I a...