An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found the 21-year-old defendant, an Austrian citizen known only as Beran A. in line with Austrian privacy rules, guilty on multiple charges including those related to the concert.
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The concert plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024.
His defense attorney said Beran A. admitted to the charges related to the
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