Published on
29/05/2026 - 8:38 GMT+2
An Austrian court has convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during her record-breaking Eras Tour. He has been 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.
Beran A was accused of planning to use knives or homemade explosives to kill people at one of the singer's shows in the capital in August 2024. The concert plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still cancelled Swift’s three performances at the Ernst Happel Stadium.
