Teen charged in connection with 2024 threat to Taylor Swift’s Vienna Concert - Deets inside

Taylor Swift, the billionaire singer, had the highest-grossing tour of all time, ‘The Eras Tour’ and made a lot of memories with the fans, singing songs from all the albums she has released since the beginning of her career.

However, amongst all the heartfelt shows, Swift had to cancel shows in Vienna after they were threatened with a terrorist attack in August 2024.

A teenager has been identified...

According to the BBC, German authorities have charged a Syria-based teenager with helping to plot a terrorist attack at Taylor Swift’s scheduled concert shows in Vienna. On June 27, 2025, Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor announced that a juvenile had been indicted on charges of supporting a foreign terrorist organisation and attempting a serious act of violence against the state.While the teenager has not been in custody yet, the German authorities state that the Syrian teenager, with the help of a 19-year-old Austrian teenager, made plans to bomb the concerts in Vienna. The identified accused had been in contact with an Austrian teen in July-August 2024. Prosecutors stated that the teenager had translated bomb-making instructions, sent the main suspect their IS oath of allegiance, and further helped to establish contact with another member of the terrorist organisation.

The main Austrian 19-year-old was previously arrested before the Eras Tour concert show on August 7, 2025. Another 18-year-old was also taken into custody after two days.

About Taylor Swift's statement...

Taylor Swift or her representatives have not given any statement. However, when the shows were cancelled, she thanked the authorities for warning her and expressed guilt for not conducting the concert for her eager fans. After wrapping up the European leg, she posted about the terror attack, stating, “filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.” “But I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them, we were grieving concerts and not lives. I was heartened by the love and unity I saw in the fans who banded together,” she continued.