The young man wanted to kill at the Taylor Swift concert, with a native of Slovakia planned more

25. Apr 2025 at 18:52

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Vienna, BRATISLAVA. Two 19-year-old youngsters have known each other since 2020. ARDA K. was born in Slovakia, but lived in the Vienna district of Favoriten, Hasan E. Zas in the district of Bruck an der Leith, bordering on Slovakia. Their third peer Beran A. lived in the house with his parents in Ternitz south of Vienna.

At least since May 2023, all three intensively communicated through social networks about their « big plan ».

On March 4, 2024, three friends flew from Vienna Airport Schwechat – Hasan and Arda together to Istanbul, Beran headed to Dubaja. Parents of the Slovak native For the Kronen Zeitung Diary that at that time believed that friends went together to the holiday.

In fact, March 11, Hasan stabbed five people in the area of ​​the Al-Harám Mosque in Saudi Arabian Mecca. Arda was about to attack a similar attack in Istanbul, while Beran was supposed to attack Dubai. However, they both returned to Austria.

A few months later Beran arrested as the main suspect of the upcoming attack on the concerts of the singer Taylor Swift in Vienna, which was canceled for the terrorist threat. Arda K. did not get into the hands of the police on Wednesday.

They argued for an attack

On August 7 last year, the Austrian police were arrested by 19-year-old Beran A. based on a US tip CIA. She recorded a communication in which a young man confesses to membership in an Islamic state and says that he wants to kill as many « unbelievers ».

The suspicious man confessed that « he wanted to kill as many fans as possible at the Taylor Swift concert 9 August », with grenades, knives or car. Three concerts of the popular American singer at the Vienna stadium, which sold almost 200,000 tickets, eventually canceled.