18 minutes agoSuspect's lawyer for planning attack in Vienna attempts to lower the seriousness of the case
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(2 years ago)The lawyer for a failed plan to attack at a concert of the world star, Taylor Swift in Vienna, has tried Sunday to lower the seriousness of the plan, and has said her client only “has played with ideas”. Austrian authorities have said earlier this week that the suspect is [...]
The lawyer for a failed plan to attack at a concert of the world star, Taylor Swift in Vienna, has tried Sunday to lower the seriousness of the plan, and has said her client only “has played with ideas”.
Austrian authorities have said earlier this week that the suspect is originally from Northern Macedonia and has asked Skopje for information.
The three planned Swift concerts this week have been cancelled, as Austrian authorities have discovered that a 19-year-old has been planning to carry out a suicide attack, inspired by the extremist group, the Islamic State (IS).
The concerts were planned to be held in a football stadium with thousands of people.
Austrian investigators have said the young man recently committed an oath to the IS and has been fully confessed after police raided his home, where he found chemicals and equipment used by the attackers to carry out the bomb attack.
Lawyer Ina-Christtin Stiglitz said that the young man had contact with the IS only last month.
The “cared”, she said, suggesting that her client had not really intended to carry out a serious attack.
“just played with idea”, she said.
“He says the bomb was not of the right quality, it would not work”.
According to the lawyer, the suspect has done online research on how a bomb is created.
Among the three teenagers arrested by Austrian police is another 17-year-old, for whom Stiglitz has said her client describes as “neighbour and best friend”.
The 19-year-old neighbours, in the small town of Ternitz, have expressed shock at his arrest, viewing him as reserved but social children.
They have said that one of the signals that it may have radicalized has been that it recently increased its beard.
The lawyer said he raised the chin “to look the style”.
Austrian Chancellor Carl Nehammer has said Austrian intelligence agencies must have more competence so they can monitor communications on texting applications, and thus prevent terrorist acts. /rel
