Austrian officials announced on Friday that a third teenager was taken into custody during the investigation of a possible Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack against a Taylor Swift concert that was scheduled to take place at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna.
The country’s Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner, told reporters at a press conference that an 18-year-old Iraqi national has been detained after he allegedly maintained contact with the main suspect in the case and had recently shown allegiance to ISIS.
Karner noted that while authorities believe the individual was not directly involved in the project's preparations, the government is moving to revoke his residency permit due to his support for the terror group.
Last week, police in the Central European nation raided the homes of two young men who Karl Nehammer, the chancellor of Austria, claimed “had very specific and detailed plans to cause a tragedy on the scale of Paris, Manchester, or Moscow” during one of the performances by the popular American singer.
The suspected ringleader, a 19-year-old Austrian citizen from a Macedonian family, was found with 21,000 in counterfeit euros, explosives, machetes, knives, timers, a police siren kit, and Islamist propaganda during a search of his residence.
Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the head of Austria’s domestic intelligence agency, disclosed that information about the incident was provided by a foreign security service.
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