Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour concerts in Austria on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday have been canceled due to terror plans.
UPDATED August 9: A third person was arrested and is suspected in Vienna of planning terrorist attacks at The Eras Tour. The individual is an 18-year-old Iraqi citizen, according to Reuters. The main suspect among the three arrested has already admitted to the planning, and reportedly stated that the goal was to kill as many people as possible – both inside the concert venue and outside. The plan involved carrying out the attack with knives and homemade explosives.
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Taylor Swift’s three concerts in Vienna are canceled.
This follows the arrest of two individuals suspected of planning a terrorist act during the shows.
One of the arrested is a 19-year-old Austrian who is reported to have been radicalized online by ISIS, according to Franz Ruf – General Director for Public Security – at a press conference.
The teenager lives with his parents in the town of Ternitz.
The police raided the house, where they found chemicals, and arrested another man a few hours later.
The organizer Barracuda Music states that none of the concerts will take place.
“After confirmation from the authorities of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst-Happel-Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three planned shows for everyone’s safety,” the organizer stated.
Tickets for The Eras Tour concerts in Austria, scheduled for Friday, August 8 – Sunday, August 10, will be automatically refunded.
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Taylor Swift has not yet commented on the cancellations as of now.
Ernst-Happel-Stadium has a capacity of 51,000 people.
Taylor chose not to perform in Norway, but she held three concerts in Sweden at Strawberry Arena in Stockholm (twice the size of Telenor Arena in Bærum) to a total of 178,679 people.
The Eras Tour is the highest-grossing tour in music history.
During Ariana Grande’s concert in Manchester on May 22, 2017, 21 people were killed and over 1,000 were injured in a terrorist attack.