Beran A admits conspiring in other plans abroad as well as planning attack on Swift\u2019s Vienna concert.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 28 Apr 2026<\/span>28 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A 21-year-old Austrian man has pleaded guilty to planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna that was foiled the day before the event in August 2024.<\/p>\n As his trial opened in the Austrian capital on Tuesday, Beran A admitted the charges relating to the conspiracy to mount the attack. Three dates in Swift\u2019s record-breaking tour were cancelled when authorities warned of the plot.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The defendant is also accused, alongside Slovak national Arda K, of planning attacks in the Middle East that they did not go through with, and of providing moral support to a third man \u200cwho has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a knife attack in Mecca.<\/p>\n Beran A, Arda K and the third man, all school friends, had planned to carry out one attack each \u2060in Dubai, Istanbul and Mecca in March 2024.<\/p>\n While each travelled to the designated cities, \u2060only the third man launched an attack. He was \u2060arrested on suspicion of stabbing a security official at Mecca\u2019s Grand Mosque and remains in custody in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n Arda K pleaded guilty to travelling to Istanbul with the intention of carrying out an attack. Beran A admitted to travelling to Dubai for the same reason. They pleaded not guilty, however, to providing moral support to the third \u200cman.<\/p>\n Beran A told the court he had sought out potential victims while in Dubai, including tourists and soldiers, but then could not bring himself to stab anybody as he had a \u201cpanic attack\u201d each time.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought, \u2018I have \u200cto \u200ccarry out the attack; at the same time, I\u2019m afraid of dying\u2019,\u201d he told the court.<\/p>\n Prosecutors also accuse Beran A of using video instructions issued by ISIL (ISIS) on how to make a shrapnel bomb, producing the explosive triacetone peroxide and illegally trying to buy weapons, including a machine \u2060gun and hand grenade, for the planned attack on the concert.<\/p>\n He has been charged with various, mainly \u201cterrorism-related\u201d offences, and faces 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n The hearing was the first of five trial days scheduled to end on May 28. The presiding judge said she hoped a ruling could be reached by then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Beran A admits conspiring in other plans abroad as well as planning attack on Swift\u2019s Vienna concert. Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026 A 21-year-old Austrian man has pleaded guilty to planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna that was foiled the day before the event in August 2024. As his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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