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BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors on Friday announced charges
against a suspect accused of supporting a foiled plot last year
to attack Taylor Swift concerts in neighboring Austria.
Three Swift concerts in Vienna were canceled in early August
when the plot was discovered, and Austrian authorities made
three arrests.
The indictment in Germany against a young Syrian national,
identified only as Mohammad A. in line with German privacy
rules, was filed at a Berlin court earlier this month. Federal
prosecutors said in a statement that he is accused of supporting
a foreign terrorist organization and preparing a serious act of
violence.
Prosecutors said that the suspect supported the ideology of the
Islamic State group and that, between mid-July and August last
year, he was in contact with a young man in Austria who planned
to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
He allegedly helped by translating bomb-building instructions
from Arabic and organizing online contact with an IS member
abroad, among other things.
The suspect also allegedly gave his acquaintance in Austria the
text for an oath of allegiance to IS, which the latter used to
join the group.
He is not in custody, prosecutors said. The court must now
decide whether to bring the case to trial and when.
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