JAKARTA - The Vienna Prosecutor's Office has officially filed a criminal complaint for terrorism against a 21-year-old young man who is suspected of planning an attack on Taylor Swift's concert in Vienna, Austria, in August 2024.
Based on the official statement of the prosecutor, quoted by Billboard, the suspect whose identity is kept secret has declared allegiance to the ISIS militant group.
This commitment is evidenced by his activities which often share propaganda materials and videos of radicalism through various short message services.
Not only spreading ideology, the suspect is known to have gone as far as the technical preparation stage of a deadly attack.
The prosecutor accused the young man of having studied the instructions for making an improvised bomb containing sharp fragments via the internet.
The explosive he developed was a type of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a highly unstable chemical that is often a hallmark of terror attacks affiliated with ISIS.
The investigation team even found that the suspect had managed to produce a small amount of the explosive before he was finally arrested by the Austrian security forces.
In addition to preparing explosives, the prosecution documents reveal that the man made several illegal attempts to buy firearms from abroad to be smuggled into Austria.
The plan was detected thanks to international intelligence cooperation, in which the United States played a crucial role in providing sensitive information to Austrian authorities, which led to the sudden cancellation of three Eras Tour concert schedules at the Ernst Happel Stadium.
Currently, the suspect is in custody and will soon face trial in Wiener Neustadt, a city located near the Austrian capital. If proven, he will receive a 20-year prison sentence.
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