Chemical Substances Found at Home of Taylor Swift Bomb Plot Suspect

Published on August 8, 2024

Chemical substances have been found at the home of a 19-year-old suspected of planning an attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, a senior official with Austria’s interior ministry has told the country’s state broadcaster. Franz Ruf, the public security director, told ORF on Thursday the police arrested two individuals, aged 19 and 17, earlier this week, and found chemical substances and technical devices at a house in Ternitz, 20 miles south of the Austrian capital. Ruf said the older suspect had uploaded to the internet an oath of allegiance to the current leader of the ISIS terrorist group. He said the 17-year-old was arrested in Vienna and confirmed that officials were not seeking anyone else in connection with the investigation....

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