Taylor Swift is shown arriving for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2025. An Austrian man accused of plotting a terrorist attack at Swift's 2024 concert in Vienna was found guilty and sentenced Thursday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
May 28 (UPI) -- A 21-year-old Austrian man on Thursday was found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on a 2024 Taylor Swift concert in Vienna and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The man, identified in court only as Beran A., drew the sentence after being found guilty of more than a dozen charges, most of which were terrorism-related, at the Wiener Neustadt Regional Court, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported.
A co-defendant, Arda K., received a 12-year sentence on similar charges in connection with the August 2024 incident, in which Swift was forced to cancel a planned show at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna.
The two were found guilty of attempted murder, traveling for terrorist purposes, training for terrorist purposes, terrorist association and criminal organization by a jury, which needed 6 1/2 hours of deliberations to reach its verdict.
