2026年4月28日 / 美国东部时间上午8:06 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
奥地利韦尔斯新施塔特——据奥地利媒体报道，一名被指控效忠ISIS、计划在近两年前袭击超级歌手泰勒·斯威夫特在维也纳的一场演唱会的男子，在周二庭审开始时认罪。
该袭击计划被挫败，但奥地利当局仍取消了斯威夫特原定于2024年8月举行的三场演出。这位歌手的粉丝“斯威夫特粉”们原本从全球各地飞往奥地利，期待观看她创下纪录的《时代巡回演唱会》，他们深受打击，但随后团结起来，将维也纳变成了一个全城范围的友谊手链交易集市，共同合唱歌曲。
根据奥地利隐私保护规定，被告仅被称为贝兰·A.，这名21岁的奥地利公民面临包括恐怖主义犯罪和参与恐怖组织在内的多项指控。他最高可被判处20年监禁，自2024年8月起一直被羁押。
维也纳这起袭击计划被拿来与2017年英国曼彻斯特阿里亚娜·格兰德演唱会自杀式炸弹袭击相提并论，那次袭击造成22人死亡。炸弹在格兰德演唱会结束、数千名年轻粉丝离场时引爆，成为近年来英国境内最致命的极端主义袭击事件。
他的辩护律师安娜·迈尔表示，当事人对与演唱会袭击计划相关的指控认罪。
“当然，他对这一切深感悔恨，”迈尔在法庭外说道，“他还表示，长期的羁押让他意识到这是他人生中最大的错误。”
2026年4月28日，在奥地利韦尔斯新施塔特地区法院就泰勒·斯威夫特演唱会袭击计划案庭审首日，一名被告由惩教人员和警察带入法庭。克里斯蒂安·布鲁纳 / 盖蒂图片社
他与阿尔达·K.一同受审，后者的全名同样未公开。他们与第三名男子计划在2024年斋月期间以ISIS的名义，在沙特阿拉伯、土耳其和阿联酋同时发动袭击。贝兰·A.和阿尔达·K.并未实施他们的袭击计划。
只有贝兰·A.因与泰勒·斯威夫特演唱会袭击计划相关的罪名被起诉。他对与多国同步袭击计划相关的指控拒不认罪。
据称，他计划用刀具或自制爆炸物袭击恩斯特·哈佩尔体育场外聚集的围观人群——每晚场外最多可达3万人，场内另有6.5万人。当局2024年表示，这名嫌疑人希望“杀死尽可能多的人”。美国提供的情报是当局决定取消演唱会的原因之一。
“他们策划杀害这场演唱会上的大量民众——数万人，我确信其中包括许多美国人，并且他们的计划已经相当深入，”中央情报局副局长戴维·科恩在逮捕行动数周后说道，“奥地利当局能够实施逮捕，是因为中情局和我们情报界的合作伙伴向他们提供了与这个关联ISIS的团伙计划行动的相关信息。”
贝兰·A.还据称在袭击计划筹备期间与其他ISIS成员保持联系。检方称，他们讨论过购买武器和制造炸弹，被告还试图在演唱会举办前几天非法购买武器。此外，他还宣誓效忠这个极端组织。
当局表示，他们于2024年8月7日搜查了他的公寓，发现了制造炸弹的材料。演唱会原定于次日开启。
“我们的维也纳演唱会被取消令人崩溃，”斯威夫特在两周后发布在Instagram上的声明中写道，“取消演出的理由让我心生新的恐惧，也让我深感愧疚，因为有那么多人专程赶来观看演出。”
本次庭审在维也纳以南约一小时车程的韦尔斯新施塔特举行。程序预计将于5月12日继续进行。
检方还在本次庭审中就针对沙特阿拉伯、土耳其和阿联酋的同步袭击计划，对阿尔达·K.提起了与恐怖主义相关的指控。
该计划中的第三名男子哈桑·E.，据称于2024年3月11日在沙特阿拉伯麦加大清真寺持刀刺伤了一名安保人员。奥地利检方表示，他已被逮捕，目前仍在沙特阿拉伯处于审前羁押状态。
贝兰·A.和阿尔达·K.并未在土耳其和阿联酋实施他们的计划。贝兰·A.返回维也纳后，据称开始策划袭击当地的一场斯威夫特演唱会。
这场共计近150场的《时代巡回演唱会》于2023年3月启动，2024年12月收官，覆盖五大洲，售出超过1000万张门票——成为历史上首场门票销售额突破10亿美元的巡演。
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Austrian pleads guilty to plotting ISIS-linked terror attack on Taylor Swift concert
April 28, 2026 / 8:06 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Wiener Neustadt, Austria— A man accused of pledging allegiance to ISIS and plotting to attack one of superstar singer Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna nearly two years ago pleaded guilty as his trial began on Tuesday, Austria media reported.
The plot was thwarted, but Austrian authorities still canceled Swift’s three performances in August 2024. The singer’s fans, known as Swifties, who had flown to Austria from across the globe to attend a performance of her record-setting Eras Tour were devastated, but rallied to turn Vienna into a citywide trading post for friendship bracelets and singalongs.
The defendant, a 21-year-old Austrian citizen known only as Beran A., in line with Austrian privacy rules, faced charges including terrorist offenses and membership in a terrorist organization. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, and has been in custody since August 2024.
The Vienna plot drew comparisons to a 2017 attack by a suicide bomber at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, that killed 22 people. The bomb detonated at the end of Grande’s concert as thousands of young fans were leaving, becoming the deadliest extremist attack in the United Kingdom in recent years.
Anna Mair, his defense attorney, said her client pleaded guilty to the charges related to the concert plot.
“Of course, he deeply regrets it all,” Mair said outside the court. “It is also due to the long period of detention that he says it was the biggest mistake of his life.”
A defendant is lead into the hearing room by correctional and police officers on the first day of the Taylor Swift concert plot trial at Regional Court Wiener Neustadt on April 28, 2026 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Christian Bruna / Getty Images
He is facing trial alongside Arda K., whose full name also has not been made public. They, along with a third man, planned to carry out simultaneous attacks in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates during Ramadan in 2024 in the name of ISIS. Beran A. and Arda K. never carried out their attacks.
Only Beran A. was charged in connection with the Taylor Swift plot. He pleaded not guilty to the charges related to the plot for simultaneous attacks.
He allegedly planned to target onlookers gathered outside Ernst Happel Stadium – up to 30,000 each night, with another 65,000 inside the venue – with knives or homemade explosives. The suspect hoped to “kill as many people as possible,” authorities said in 2024. The U.S. provided intelligence that fed into the decision to cancel the concerts.
“They were plotting to kill a huge number — tens of thousands of people at this concert, including, I am sure, many Americans — and were quite advanced in this,” CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said a few weeks after the arrests. “The Austrians were able to make those arrests because the agency and our partners in the intelligence community provided them with information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do.”
Beran A. also allegedly networked with other ISIS members ahead of the planned attack. Prosecutors say they discussed purchasing weapons and making bombs, and that the defendant also sought to illegally buy weapons in the days ahead of the performance. In addition, he swore allegiance to the militant group.
Authorities said they searched his apartment on Aug. 7, 2024, and found bomb-making materials. The concerts were scheduled to begin the next day.
“Having our Vienna shows canceled was devastating,” Swift wrote in a statement posted to Instagram two weeks later. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of fear, and a tremendous amount of guilt because so many people had planned on coming to those shows.”
The trial is being held in Wiener Neustadt, about an hour south of Vienna. The proceedings are set to continue on May 12.
Prosecutors have also filed terrorism-related charges against Arda K. in the trial in connection with the plan for simultaneous attacks in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
The third man in that plot, Hasan E., allegedly stabbed a security guard with a knife at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on March 11, 2024. He was arrested and remains in pretrial detention in Saudi Arabia, Austrian prosecutors said.
Beran A. and Arda K. did not carry out their plans in Turkey and the UAE. Beran A. returned to Vienna and then allegedly began plotting to attack a Swift concert there.
The nearly 150-show Eras Tour, which began in March 2023 and ended in December 2024, covered five continents and sold more than 10 million tickets – making it the first tour in history to surpass $1billion in ticket sales.
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