1 / 3

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

FILE - Exterior view of the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader, File)

VIENNA – A German court on Tuesday convicted a 16-year-old boy accused of supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year.

The Syrian national, whom prosecutors have identified only as Mohammad A. in line with German privacy rules, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad. The Berlin court gave him a suspended 18-month sentence.

Judges found that the defendant, then aged 14, supported the ideology of the Islamic State group at the time and was in contact via social media with a young man in neighboring Austri

See Full Page