Mohammad A, 16, given 18-month suspended sentence for helping plan foiled attack in Vienna
A Berlin court has convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
Three dates in the US pop star’s record-breaking Eras tour were cancelled last summer after authorities learned of the plot.
The 16-year-old defendant, named by prosecutors as Mohammad A, was found guilty of “preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state” and “supporting a terrorist act abroad”. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence.
Mohammad A, who was 14 at the time of the foiled attack, had been “radicalised by IS [Islamic State] propaganda on the internet”, the court said. He was found guilty of providing support to another teenager in Austria in plotting the atrocity.
