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A lawyer for the 19-year-old man arrested in reference to an alleged deliberate assault on Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” live shows in Vienna has claimed authorities exaggerated his shopper’s involvement.
Swift’s three reveals in Vienna had been canceled simply hours after the arrest in Austria. The suspect reportedly made a full confession to the authorities, however his lawyer confused that the alleged plans had been “pure fantasies.”
“He had neither the means nor the chance and the explosives to hold this out,” Werner Tomanek instructed the Austrian Press Company. He added that the authorities’ accusations towards the 19-year-old suspect had been “overacting at finest”, claiming that they had been “exaggerating this” so as to achieve new surveillance powers.
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A lawyer for a suspect in alleged terrorist plots to assault Taylor Swift’s live shows in Austria mentioned authorities “overreacted” to his threats. (Buda Mendes)
Tomanek mentioned his shopper appeared to have psychological well being points and described him as “a lone wolf with no social contacts”. He mentioned “the alleged plans to assault had been pure fantasies”.
The lawyer famous that the suspect had admitted to “mainly Islamist tendencies” throughout police questioning. Tomanek additionally admitted that his shopper had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on-line, however claimed he had shortly deleted it.
“He had neither the means, nor the capabilities, nor the explosives to hold this out.”
Three Taylor Swift live shows in Vienna had been cancelled attributable to an alleged terror plot. (Buda Mendes/TAS23/Getty Photographs for TAS Rights Administration)
Swift’s three live shows in Vienna had been canceled on August 7 after authorities arrested a 17-year-old man and a 19-year-old man for allegedly plotting a terrorist assault on the Ernst Happel Stadium. An 18-year-old man was arrested on August 8.
A 15-year-old man has been questioned by police, however has not but been recognized as a suspect.
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At the least one of many suspects confessed that he needed to “kill as many individuals as potential exterior the live performance venue.”
Bomb-making supplies had been additionally present in no less than one of many teenagers’ houses. The 19-year-old man had bomb-making manuals in his possession, together with selfmade explosives, detonators and hydrogen peroxide, NBC reported.
A display screen reveals a photograph of a person arrested in reference to an alleged terrorist plot focusing on Taylor Swift live shows in Vienna this week. (Roland Schlager/APA/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Authorities discovered ISIS and al-Qaeda materials within the 17-year-old’s house.
On account of Austrian privateness legal guidelines, the names of the suspects haven’t been made public.
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Regardless of the cancellation in Vienna, Swift’s “Eras Tour” in London will go forward as deliberate.
London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned there was no proof of a hyperlink to the deliberate assaults in Austria. Swift will take to the stage at Wembley Stadium for a second spherical of reveals starting August 15. The “Tortured Poets Division” singer will carry out 5 reveals in London.
Taylor Swift will carry out in London throughout “The Eras Tour” after the cancellation of the live shows in Vienna. (Thomas Niedermueller/TAS24/Getty Photographs for TAS Rights Administration)
However there’ll probably be “extra layers of safety” within the wake of the foiled terrorist assault, a safety skilled instructed Fox Information Digital.
“Taylor Swift’s group is probably going implementing extra layers of safety to make sure her personal security, in addition to the security of her followers and the general public,” Julian Moro, SVP and regional director of safety at Worldwide SOS, instructed Fox Information Digital. “Whereas it’s unknown what the precise measures will likely be, we are able to assume this may occasionally embrace rising safety personnel, limiting public appearances and interactions, and reassessing journey routes. It would additionally probably embrace elevated safety in and across the venues the place she’s going to carry out for the rest of her tour.”
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The Related Press contributed to this report.
