Austria Taylor Swift concert: Jury considers verdict for man accused of plotting attack

A jury in Austria has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a 21 year-old Austrian man, who has admitted plotting a jihadist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in August 2024. The man, named only as Beran A in line with Austrian privacy laws, has also admitted to a charge of "being part of a terrorist organisation". Beran A has denied other charges, including involvement in planning an attack in the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. He is on trial with another 21-year-old man, named as Arda K from Slovakia, who is accused with him of being part of a cell with jihadist group Islamic State (IS). Arda K was not involved in the Taylor Swift plot. Beran A was arrested after a tip-off from the CIA, just before the first of three sold-out Taylor Swift concerts that were supposed to take place in Vienna's Ernst Happl stadium in the summer of 2024. All three shows were cancelled, to the dismay of almost 200,000 fans, and the singer herself. A documentary of Swift's Eras Tour revealed Swift had learned about the bomb plot while she was on a plane to Austria. She described how the tour had narrowly "dodged a massacre situation". Prosecutors say Beran A had become r