▸ World star Taylor Swift was to perform in Vienna on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All three concerts were sold out and many had traveled from abroad to be present at the Ernst Happel stadium, which holds just over 50,000 people. On Wednesday evening, the organizer Barracuda music suddenly announced that the concerts are cancelled. “Following confirmation from government officials of a planned terrorist attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium, we have no choice but to cancel the three planned concerts for everyone’s safety,” the company wrote. The terrorist threat was discovered after the army’s intelligence service received a tip from a foreign military, writes the newspaper Der Kurier. It led to a massive police operation in the town of Ternitz, south of Vienna, on Wednesday morning. Streets were blocked off for several hours, residents of 60 adjacent buildings were evacuated and a 19-year-old man was arrested at his home. Two more suspects were arrested in Austria on Wednesday.
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Terrorism planned against Swift’s concerts – canceled
