On Tuesday, a Berlin court sentenced a 16-year-old to a suspended 1.5-year prison term under juvenile law for aiding a thwarted attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year.
The Syrian teenager, who was 14 during the incident, faced charges in June and was referred to as Mohammad A. due to German privacy regulations.
The court announced that the defendant admitted his actions, and the sentence, which is subject to appeal, matched the prosecutors’ recommendations.
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Initially influenced by Daesh’s online propaganda, he provided the would-be attacker with a bomb-making video and connected him with a Daesh member, according to the court.
Police arrested multiple individuals over the planned attack on a Taylor Swift concert at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium, leading to the cancellation of all three scheduled shows in August last year.
In June, Austria’s coalition government agreed on a measure allowing police to monitor suspects’ secure communications to prevent militant attacks, addressing what officials called a significant security gap in the EU.
