Federal prosecutors charged the suspect with supporting a foreign terrorist organization and setting up a serious act of violence that would endanger the state, Mohammad A., who was only partially identified.
He had been in contact with a young Austrian adult who was allegedly planning a bomb attack at one of Swift’s concerts as a child and had started following IS ideology from April last year at the latest, according to reports.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement that the accused assisted the young adult in his preparations by, among other things, establishing contact with an IS member abroad via the internet and translating bomb-making instructions from Arabic.
The young adult used the template for the IS oath of allegiance that the accused also used to join the organization.
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Mohammad A. was taken into custody by police in Frankfurt an der Oder, where he was then 15 years old, at the time, but he later was released.
The Karlsruhe federal prosecutor’s office announced on Friday that the charges were brought against them on June 17 in a Berlin higher regional court, which will decide whether or not they are admissible.
Authorities issued a warning about a terror plot by IS sympathisers last summer, forcing the cancellation of three Vienna shows that were scheduled for Swift’s record-breaking “Eras” tour.
The United States claimed to have shared intelligence with the police in the lead investigation and that a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots was among the three suspects being detained.
Swift later claimed on Instagram that “the reason the cancellations caused me to feel very anxious and repulsed because so many people planned to attend those shows.”
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