Taylor Swift cancels her three concerts in Vienna due to the threat of a jihadist attack
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LAmerican artist Taylor Swift Cancels his three concerts at the stadium Ernst Hubel of Vienna After the capture of this Two suspected terrorists who planned the attack during the showThe Tour organizers said in a statement.
“Based on the confirmation by the government authorities of a planned terrorist attack on the Ernst Hubel Stadium, We have no choice but to cancel the three shows A blueprint for everyone’s Safety, ” explained the Barracuda Music Team.
Tickets will be refunded automatically in the next ten working days, as indicated in the publication.
Cancellation Preceded by an anti-terrorist operation carried out today in Austria, Where a 19-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested in the town of Trenitz, About 65 kilometers southwest of Vienna , and The arrest of a second person in the capital.
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Federal Chancellor of Austria, Karl nyhammer, He explained on social networks that”the situation surrounding the allegedly planned terrorist attack in Vienna was very serious”.
“We live in a time when violent means are being used to attack our western way of life. Islamic terrorism threatens security and freedom in many Western countriesThat is exactly why we will not abandon our values, such as freedom and democracy, but we will defend them more vigorously if possible,” he continues in the publication.
The investigation is still ongoing and it seems that more suspects are being sought, the Austrian news agency APA reports.
The Director General of public safety of Austria, Franz Ruf, Reported at a press conference about “specific preparations”, including chemicals, found in the detainee’s house in ternitz to attack Swift’s concerts and other events in the Vienna metropolitan area.
Authorities Report youth radicalization, Who in July swore allegiance to the current leader of the Islamic State He, however, did not give further details about the second detainee in the Austrian capital.
Although during the press conference they put forward the deployment of a special operation to ensure the security of the event, the director of the Vienna State Police, Gerhard Prestel, You must remain alert to the terrorist threat.
Ernst Hubel Stadium It was scheduled to receive from August 8 to 10 about 170,000 participants To the ‘tour of the ages’, for which tickets were sold out.
In November 2020, Vienna was the target of a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of four people. Last December, the authorities arrested four suspects of planning an attack in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, In the city center.
