(Reuters) The teenager who Austrian authorities say planned to unleash a “bloodbath” at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna this week only recently showed hints of being radicalized on the internet into committing acts of violence, according to people who knew him.
Identified by Austrian media as Beran A., the 19-year-old was said by neighbours to have been reserved but friendly before his arrest this week thrust him into international headlines when authorities announced they had thwarted the planned attack.
His neighbours in Ternitz, a small town some 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Vienna, were stunned by the accusations leveled against him, although several said that he had grown a long beard and become more serious in the run-up to the foiled plot.
