What authorities have revealed about the alleged terror plot aimed at Taylor Swift's Vienna concerts adheres to a chilling pattern.
What Austrian authorities have revealed about the alleged terror plot aimed at Taylor Swift's three Vienna concerts adheres to a chilling pattern familiar to European counterterrorism officials.
Police also alluded to the role of social media in both the radicalization of the suspects and alleged planning of the attacks. Neumann noted the latest Europol data showed "the number of attacks and planned attacks has more than quadrupled" since 2022. And in April, a 16-year-old from the Haute-Savoie department in southeastern France was arrested for allegedly researching how to make an explosives belt and die as an ISIS martyr, possibly targeting the Olympics, the statement added.In April, officials in the western city of Dusseldorf said they arrested two girls, aged 15 and 16, and a 15-year-old boy accused of planning a terror attack.
"Groups like specifically targeting young teenagers," Neumann said. "They may not be very useful. They may mess up. They may change their mind," he said, but they are "not least less suspicious. Who would think of a 13-year-old as a terrorist? One is enough."
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