Posted on 08/27/2025 8:28:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The defendant was assisting a man in Vienna who was planning on attacking one of Swift's 'Eras' shows in Vienna last summer
A 16-year-old boy has been convicted in Germany for supporting a foiled terror attack on Taylor Swift‘s shows in Austria last year.
The teenager, referred to only as Mohammed A under Germany’s privacy laws, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad.
After being charged in June, on Tuesday (August 26), he was given a suspended 18-month sentence. The trial took place behind closed doors because of his age, during which he is said to have given a “comprehensive confession”.
The defendant, who was aged 14 at the time, was a Syrian national who had supported the ideology of the Islamic State group.
The court heard that between mid July and August 2024, he was in contact with the man in Austria via social media who had planned to attack one of Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ shows in Vienna last summer. Mohammed A had sent the man a video containing instructions for building a bomb and also organised contact with an IS member.
The terror plot was uncovered by authorities and all three Vienna shows were cancelled. Swift later commented on the cancellations, calling them “devastating”, while saying she was “grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives”.
The main suspect was arrested in Ternitz, south of Vienna, before the concerts following a tip-off by the CIA. A second person was also arrested in the Austrian capital around the same time, followed by a third suspect days later.
The 19-year-old man reportedly fully confessed to planning the terror attack in the days following his arrest, saying he planned to use knives and self-made explosives to kill as many people as possible. A police search of his house reportedly led to found chemicals, explosives, knives and machete knives being found. Authorities also identified Islamic State and al-Qaida material at the residence.
What else would you need to know?
A ham-head.
Who’d have thunk?
And so we see yet another game of Whack-A-Mole. This time the authorities won.
But what about the next time? And the time after that? Because you can be sure that there will be many more next times.
Oh, and good move by giving the Muslim criminal a suspended sentence. That will surely deter his pals and him in the future. Not.
Round up and deport every single muslim to an Islamic s hole. Every damned one of them.
We’d be better off deporting leftists.
Guy seemingly failed to get the concert venue canceled.
That in itself should actually result and a more severe penalty.
Why are people are so enamored by Taylor not so swift. I do not understand.
I don’t like any situation where there’s potential loss of life. But I also don’t like any situation where the people are clearly losing their minds, and I cannot imagine sitting through one of her concerts without going substantially crazy.
I think it was
Britney Spears who had a line in one of her songs. That said i’m not that innocent
Taylor Swift needs a song that has the lyrics in it. Somewhere i’m not that talented.
I applaud her getting engaged and having a great boyfriend. Planning on moving forward, and I’m hoping that when she begins. Doing that, her career will stop moving in the negative direction that it has been in 42 or three decades.Now
Import more, Germans. That’ll fix it.
If you ask me, Taylor Swift touring is a terror plot in itself.
this doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition.
She needs to get married to that NFL guy so that she can divorce him and make a new song...
That’s an Amish name.
A hero in my book...I mean it’s Taylor Swift...
SARCASM spelled out for those incapable of not understanding it.
Just another mooselimb rage boy doing what they do best.
Pronto.
I’m with you on this one.
That’s what I was thinking.
I was going to say if anything could cause someone to want to go off it would be Taylor Swift.
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