{"id":242906,"date":"2026-05-28T20:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/21-year-old-sentenced-to-15-years-for-plotting-taylor-swift-eras-tour-terror-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:31:45","slug":"21-year-old-sentenced-to-15-years-for-plotting-taylor-swift-eras-tour-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/21-year-old-sentenced-to-15-years-for-plotting-taylor-swift-eras-tour-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"21-Year-Old Sentenced to 15 Years for Plotting Taylor Swift &#8216;Eras Tour&#8217; Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2220132\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old man named <strong>Beran A<\/strong> is going to prison after plotting a terrorist attack at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a><em> Eras Tour <\/em>concert in Vienna, Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The man admitted to plotting a jihadist attack at the show, which was scheduled to take place back in August of 2024. <\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cgrp7y05l9do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beran-a.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beran-a-788x525.jpg\" alt=\"Beran A\" class=\"wp-image-2220135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beran-a-788x525.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/beran-a-428x285.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Prosecutors claim that the young man became radicalized and sore allegiance to Islamic State (IS), and attempted to buy weapons illegally. A court psychiatrist said he showed no signs of mental illness, and there was \u201cno psychiatric explanation\u201d for the radicalization.<\/p>\n<p>His name was not fully disclosed due to Austrian privacy laws, the outlet also notes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beran A<\/strong> also admitted to \u201cother terrorism-related offences, including an attack in Mecca,\u201d and apologized to the court on Thursday (May 28).<\/p>\n<p>The CIA arrested <strong>Beran A<\/strong> thanks to a tip right before the first of three sold-out shows at Ernst Happel Stadium. Find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/08\/07\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-shows-in-vienna-canceled-due-to-terrorist-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more about the arrests at the time.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage mobile-image-full-width\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/taylor-swift-eras.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-788x525.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift\" class=\"wp-image-2220136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-788x525.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/taylor-swift-eras-428x285.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100px, 100vw\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Taylor <\/strong>canceled all three shows at the time. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement afterward, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/08\/21\/taylor-swift-breaks-her-silence-on-canceled-vienna-concerts-seemingly-alludes-to-why-she-hasnt-spoken-about-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke her silence<\/a> on the scary situation. She also seemingly alluded to the reason that she hasn\u2019t addressed politics recently despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/08\/19\/donald-trump-falsely-claims-taylor-swift-endorsed-him-for-president-posts-ai-generated-photo-of-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using an AI-generated photo<\/a>\u00a0to imply that she endorsed him and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2024\/08\/19\/dnc-source-explains-why-taylor-swift-wont-appear-at-convention-to-endorse-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rumors that she would appear<\/a>\u00a0at the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>FInd out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/28\/taylor-swift-wedding-guest-list-whos-attending-who-wasnt-invited-to-travis-kelce-nuptials-latest-rumors-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who was and wasn\u2019t invited to <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> and <strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong>\u2018s wedding<\/a> so far.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce31zxqypxpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/news\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/28\/21-year-old-sentenced-to-15-years-for-plotting-taylor-swift-eras-tour-terror-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty A 21-year-old man named Beran A is going to prison after plotting a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert in Vienna, Austria. The man admitted to plotting a jihadist attack at the show, which was scheduled to take place back in August of 2024. He was sentenced to 15 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}