Taylor Swift Vienna concert terror plot

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In August 2024, a terrorism plot by followers of the Islamic State, a jihadist militant group, targeting a concert of the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna was uncovered and neutralised. Three males, aged 17, 18, and 19, were arrested in Austria for involvement in the plot that was intended to mass murder concert attendees as well as onlookers in the stadium vicinity; a Syrian juvenile male in Germany was charged in 2025 for aiding those in Austria. Three concerts of the Eras Tour, Swift's sixth concert tour, were scheduled to take place from 8–10 August 2024 at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion—the penultimate stop of the tour's European leg, in what would have been Swift's first-ever concerts in Austria. The tickets went on sale in July 2023 and all three dates sold out within the first few hours, marking the fastest and largest ticket-sale in Austrian history; over 200,000 people had been expected to attend the shows in the stadium premises. The police...

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