(DPA) The main suspect in the planned attacks on Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna is denying involvement in the plot, the Austrian news agency APA reported on Sunday.
The 19-year-old suspect said through his lawyer that he is not a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist group and did not plan to carry out attacks at Swift’s concerts earlier this week.
Following the man’s arrest, authorities said he had fully confessed and was boasting about his plan. His lawyer has now said her client simply wanted to be “cool.”
The suspect, whose family is from North Macedonia, made explosives with the help of an online tutorial, and wanted to try them out in a forest but never intended to kill people, the lawyer argued.
