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Ομολoγησε ο 19χ&rho ;οσταγτνχτσ τηναατισοφτ /></p> <p><strong>Two teenagers, aged 19 and 17, have been arrested for planning a terrorist attack on Taylor Swift's concerts scheduled to take place in Vienna this weekend. After this development, the three concerts of the American superstar in the Austrian capital were cancelled, spreading disappointment among her approximately 200,000 fans who were going to watch her live.</strong></p> <p>According to the data she presented the police, the two arrested planned to use knives or improvised explosives to kill as many people as possible.</p> <p>The 19-year-old suspect, who had pledged allegiance to the current Islamic State leader on an online account he maintained a few weeks earlier, confessed himself that he intended to “kill a large crowd at the concert either today or tomorrow in a suicide attack”. said the head of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner.</p> <p>The 19-year-old, who is said to have roots in North Macedonia, wanted to use knives or improvised explosives outside the Ernst Happel stadium to kill many people and was “clearly radicalized in the direction of the Islamic State, thinking it was right to kill infidels”.</p> <p>He is considered the main suspect, but he is said to have worked closely with a 17-year-old Austrian, public security director general Franks Ruf told broadcaster ORF.</p> <p>Both youths have been arrested and no other suspects are being sought, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said. It is noted that a 15-year-old boy, who had been in contact with the two suspects, was also questioned by the police.</p> <p><strong>Swift's concerts in London are not cancelled</strong></p> <p >British police have said there is no indication that the planned attack on Taylor Swift's concert in Vienna will have repercussions for her concerts at London's Wembley Stadium next week.</p> <p>“There is nothing to suggest that the matters being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an impact on the upcoming events here in London,” said a spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police.</p> <p><strong>The pattern that worries them Europeans: Online recruitment of young people, starting… from innocent conversations on social media</strong></p> <p>Details emerging about the alleged terror plot to target Taylor Swift's three concerts in Vienna are sparse so far, but they follow a pattern familiar to European counter-terrorism officials.</p> <p>Austrian police announced the Wednesday that a 19-year-old man was arrested in Ternitz, about an hour from where Swift was scheduled to perform Thursday, Friday and Saturday in front of a total of 200,000 fans at the Austrian capital's Ernst Happel Stadium.</p> <p>“Chemical substances”, including hydrogen peroxide, detonators and detonator wires, possibly linked to bomb-making were discovered in a search of the home of the Skopje radical arrestee, police said, adding that “specific preparation had been made” for the concerts .</p> <p>The search around the home of the 19-year-old Austrian led to the evacuation of 60 households, local media reported. A second suspect was arrested in Vienna a short time later.</p> <p>Both suspects had been radicalized online, Austrian police said, pointing to the role of social media in both the radicalization of the suspects and the alleged planning of the attacks. format,” often hiding their conversations from routine counterterrorism surveillance, Public Safety Director General Franz Ruf told reporters.</p> <p><strong>From the online conversation… in action</strong></p> <p>The way in which teenage online chatter develops into a chorus has become alarmingly common in recent months. A study by terrorism expert Peter Neumann, which CNN reported last month, found that teenagers accounted for nearly two-thirds of ISIS-related arrests in Europe over the previous nine months.</p> <p >The study of 27 ISIS-linked attacks or disorganized plots since October last year revealed that of the 58 suspects, 38 were aged between 13 and 19, according to the Professor of Security Studies at King's College London . CNN verified most of Neumann's figures with European security officials.</p> <p>He noted that the latest Europol data showed that “the number of attacks and planned attacks has more than quadrupled” since 2022.< /p> </p> <p>Among the cases Neumann cited was another in Austria, in which a 14-year-old Montenegrin girl was arrested in May in the southern Austrian city of Graz after buying a knife and an ax for an attack she allegedly planned. ISIS material was also found on her computer. Teenagers have also been arrested during French police raids ahead of the Paris Olympics.</p> <p>German police have also publicized two alleged terror plots involving teenagers in recent months.</p> <p>Meanwhile, in Switzerland, police in March arrested a 15-year-old Swiss and a 16-year-old Italian for allegedly supporting ISIS and planning bomb attacks.</p> <p>Neumann noted that teenagers are often recruited online. “Groups like ISIS-K specifically target teenagers. They may not be very helpful. They can make a sea of ​​them. They might change their minds,” he said, but “who would think of a 13-year-old as a terrorist? One is enough to do the job”.</p> <p>Teenagers were being recruited through social media platforms like TikTok, lured by algorithms into online “bubbles” where jihadist recruiters can reach them, Neumann said. ISIS-K is “by far the most ambitious and aggressive section of ISIS right now,” planning complex attacks and recruiting online, he added.</p> <p>A TikTok spokesperson told CNN last month that “we stand strongly against violent extremism and remove 98% of content found to violate our rules on promoting terrorism before we are reported.”</p> <p>In Meanwhile, while details of the Taylor Swift concert attack plans are scarce, European security sources are increasingly concerned that terror plots are being organized and directed by a more experienced or well-resourced recruiter from afar.</p> <p >A British security source told CNN that the so-called “directed terrorist threat” has become the biggest concern over the past 18 months, with ISIS-K the most powerful group being controlled, while threats are also emerging from areas of the former Soviet Union. including the North Caucasus region of Russia and Central Asian states such as Tajikistan. Last month, moreover, Austrian counter-terrorism police said they had arrested eight men and a woman originally from Chechnya for raising money for ISIS.</p> <p>source: First Topic</p> <p><noindex></p> <div class=Source: 24h.com.cy

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