(AFP) A Berlin court on Tuesday convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
Three dates in the US pop megastar’s record-breaking “Eras” tour were cancelled last summer after authorities warned of the plot.
The 16-year-old defendant, named by prosecutors as Mohammad A., was found guilty of “preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state” and “supporting a terrorist act abroad,” the court said in a statement.
He was given an 18-month suspended sentence.
Mohammad A., who was 14 at the time of the foiled attack, had been “radicalised by IS propaganda on the internet,” the court said.
