VIENNA: Austria on Friday (Aug 9) said it had detained a third alleged Islamic State sympathiser over a plot to carry out a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
VIENNA: Austria on Friday said it had detained a third alleged Islamic State sympathiser over a plot to carry out a suicide attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
On Friday Interior Ministry Gerhard Karner said that"an 18-year-old Iraqi close to the main suspect and whoThe main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots had allegedly confessed, saying he"intended to carry out an attack using explosives and knives", domestic intelligence agency head Omar Haijawi-Pirchner has told journalists.
The Austrian army's intelligence service was warned of a looming attack 10 to 15 days prior by two unspecified countries that helped it foil the plot, according to news agency APA. The European leg of the sold-out tour began in Paris in May and has taken in Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Poland.
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