In Vienna, they detained a 20-year-old Slovak as part of an investigation into a terrorist cell, which created a man planned for a thwarted attack on a concert on the American singer Taylor Swift in the Austrian metropolis. This was confirmed on Thursday evening for the APA spokeswoman of the Vienna Prosecutor’s Office, TASR reports.
According to the report, a man born in Slovakia and living in the Vienna district of Vienna is suspicious that, together with Beran A. and Hasan E., he belonged to a cell that apparently originated in the spring of 2023. and Istanbul.
The detainee Slovak suspects plans to attack Istanbul, where he traveled on March 4, 2024. In the Turkish city he was together with Hasan E., with whom he met since 2020. They went to the same school and had common interests in martial arts and the same religious beliefs. Hasan E. Subsequently, March 7, he flew to Mekka, but his friend returned to Austria without the attack in Istanbul, approaching APA. The involvement of a Slovak in the plans for the attack on the Swift concert has not yet been proven.
Beran A., a 20-year-old IS supporter from the Lower Austrian district of Neunkirchen, is the main suspect of frustrated plans for an attack at the Taylor Swift concert, which was to take place on August 9, 2024 at Ernst Happel, Vienna. The concert was canceled shortly before, as the Austrian news service DSN received information about the terrorist threat from a foreign partner organization and found and detained the young man.
The investigation showed that Beran A. and his well-known Hasan E., also the 20-year-old Dolnorakan, and now the detainee man intended to a coordinated procedure. Last March, at the beginning of the Muslim fasting month, Ramadan wanted to commit assassinations in three different places abroad at the beginning of the Muslim Lent.
Bran A. traveled to Dubai with the intention of stabbing a soldier’s mosque and then shooting with his gun at the people around, as he later confessed. According to his testimony after August’s detention, however, he was courage and was afraid he would suffer during a shootout with the police.
Hasan E. flew to Mecca and stabbed the guardian’s neck in front of the Great Mosque. Three other persons injured in the safety forces. They should be brought to justice in Saudi Arabia in the coming weeks, Kierer recently reported.
