Austrian Acquaintance of Concert Plot Suspect Convicted

In Vienna on July 25 (AP), an Austrian court delivered a conviction on Friday that involved an acquaintance of the primary suspect in the previous year’s unsuccessful attempt to target Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna. The individual was found guilty on terrorism-related charges that were separate from the concert plot, leading to a two-year prison sentence.

The state court in Wiener Neustadt found the 18-year-old, referred to only as Luca K following local privacy regulations, guilty of engagement with a terrorist organization and a criminal organization, according to reports from the Austrian Press Agency.

Luca K largely confessed to the accusations, which involved disseminating propaganda for the Islamic State group and praising an IS sympathizer responsible for the deaths of four people in Vienna in 2020.

Despite his arrest occurring just before the scheduled Swift concerts in August last year, Luca K was not accused of being involved in the plot. Defense attorney Michael Dorn indicated that his client was not a close associate of Beran A, the 20-year-old primary suspect who is still under investigation.

The defendant acknowledged his past actions as errors, appreciating his arrest, as reported by APA. “I have had a daughter, now I see life more seriously,” he expressed.

The duration already spent in detention will be subtracted from his sentence. The court's decision is open to appeal. (AP)

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