A man who admitted planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The 21-year-old defendant, known only as Beran A. under Austrian privacy rules, had planned to target people outside the Ernst Happel Stadium with knives or homemade explosives in August 2024, the court was told. The plot was thwarted following a tip off from the CIA, but Swift's three concerts were still cancelled, leaving around 200,000 fans devastated.

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