Austrian chancellor says Taylor Swift concert plotters had ‘explosives’ ready

Austrian chancellor addresses Taylor Swift concert cancellation following threatReuters

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00:00The concerts were supposed to take place, but an IS cell with suicide attackers was taken out.

00:14This happened right before that.

00:17That means, if you now look at the investigation in the beginning,

00:20who else is in this network?

00:23We heard from the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution that there are further investigations.

00:27The risk is therefore many times higher.

00:31Therefore, as I said, I can understand the decision of the organizer,

00:35in this case, to choose the path of security.

00:38And the organizer then cancelled the event for these reasons.

00:42The main culprit admitted that he wanted to commit a suicide attack with two accomplices.

00:48He got weapons and explosives for this and took further preparatory actions.

00:55It is actually unimaginable, if you think about it,

01:00what unmeasurable damage would have been done to this attack.

01:09It is a more than challenging, difficult, delicate task to observe the perpetrator in advance,

01:18to see if there are other accomplices.

01:21We have now managed to find out, confirmed by the arrests,

01:25in order to restore security in our republic and for all of us.