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Teen convicted over plot to attack Taylor Swift concert

A Berlin court has convicted a Syrian teenager of contributing to a plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.

Three dates in the US pop star's record-breaking Eras tour were cancelled last summer after authorities learned of the plot.

The 16-year-old defendant, named by prosecutors as Mohammad A, was found guilty of "preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state" and "supporting a terrorist act abroad", the Guardian reports.

He was given an 18-month suspended sentence.

Mohammad A, who was 14 at the time of the foiled attack, had been "radicalised by IS (Islamic State) propaganda on the internet", the court said.

He was found guilty of providing support to another teenager in Austria in plotting the atrocity.

Mohammad A made a full confession during the trial.

The Vienna leg of Swift's tour was called off last August after two people were arrested over an apparent plot to launch an attack on a public event in the Austrian capital.

Authorities said they had arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly planning an attack in the Vienna region and suggested that Swift's shows had been the "focus" of the plot.

The 19-year-old suspect intended "to kill himself and a large crowd of people", said Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, the head of state protection and intelligence at the Austrian interior ministry, at the time.

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