Taylor Swift’s Vienna Concert Cancelled Over Islamist Attack Threat

Three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria have been cancelled due to security concerns.

Swift was due to play three shows in Vienna between Thursday, August 8 and Saturday, August 10 at the Ernst Happel Stadium.

“With confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” Barracuda music stated in a post on social media.

Earlier, Austria’s General Director for Public Security, Franz Ruf, said a 19-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested on Wednesday morning in Ternitz in the province of Lower Austria.

He said a second arrest took place in Vienna in the afternoon, but gave no further details about the suspect.

“According to the current status of the investigation, the two suspects became radicalised via the internet,” Mr Ruf said.

In November 2020, a convicted IS sympathiser went on a shooting rampage in downtown Vienna, killing four and wounding 23 others before police shot him dead.