Attack in Mecca

Friend of the Swift assassin caused a bloodbath

During questioning, Beran A. admitted that he wanted to commit a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in August 2024 and kill "as many people as possible".(Bild: Krone KREATIV/APA/Eva Manhart, zVg)

New findings on the thwarted "Swift assassin": The 19-year-old from Ternitz had already traveled to Dubai in March to carry out an attack in the name of Allah. While one of his best friends, also a young Lower Austrian, carried out a bloodbath in Mecca.

The fervent desire to finally become "courageous", finally "spiritually strong" enough to commit a crime in the name of IS seems to have been in Beran A. - the thwarted "Swift assassin" - for quite some time.