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Deborah Cole

Syrian boy goes on trial over alleged role in Taylor Swift concert bomb plot

Taylor Swift performing
After Austrian police said they had foiled an attack, Swift said she felt a ‘tremendous amount of guilt’ about the potential risk to her fans. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

A Syrian teenager has gone on trial in Berlin accused of involvement in an Islamic State-inspired plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last summer.

The case brought by federal prosecutors against the 15-year-old defendant, identified only as Mohammad A in keeping with German privacy rules, includes charges of preparing a “severe subversive act of violence” and supporting a terrorist organisation abroad.

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