Warning: mention of violence and terrorism. The main suspect arrested for plotting a terror attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna has confessed to planning to drive a car into a crowd of ticketless fans outside the arena and attack them with machetes. The 19-year-old Austrian citizen, identified as Beran A, had recently sworn an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State online and intended to kill as many people as he could, security officials said.
He was “clearly radicalised in the direction of the Islamic State and thinks it is right to kill infidels”, said Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, director of Austria’s domestic intelligence agency..
