The lawyer for the main suspect in a failed plot to carry out an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna tried today to play down the seriousness of what he was planning, saying her client was “just playing with ideas”. Swift’s three concerts scheduled for this week were canceled after Austrian authorities discovered plans by a 19-year-old to carry out an Islamic State-inspired suicide attack on a stadium where tens of thousands of fans of the American singer would have gathered. Austrian investigators said the young man had recently pledged allegiance to Islamic State and confessed to everything after police raided his home, during which chemicals, machetes and other devices planned to be used in a bomb attack were seized. Lawyer Ina-Kristin Stiglitz told Reuters the 19-year-old had only been involved with the Islamic State group for the past month. “He was interested,” she stated, implying that her client was not […]
Source: News Beast
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