Taylor Swift fans rush to sell their tickets for as much as £600 for five concerts at Wembley Stadium – as popstar cancelled three Austria appearances after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting terror attack on star’s Vienna shows
Taylor Swift fans have rushed to sell their tickets for five concerts at Wembley Stadium, after a teenager allegedly planned a terror attack on one of the star’s Austria shows.
Resale ticket site Viagogo had 839 two-seated tickets on sale for between £400 to £600, while other Taylor Swift fans asked Wembley to reschedule the events for later this month.
It comes after a 19-year-old Islamic State fanatic, identified as Beran A, is said to have obtained a blue flashing light and siren that could have enabled him to drive up to the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna where the shows were taking place.
The vehicle would be used to run over concert-goers before he emerged to attack them with knives and machetes and then trigger the bomb, potentially killing scores more, according to Austrian media.
The atrocity was allegedly planned for 4pm, when around 65,000 Swifties were due in the area, along with 30,000 who hadn’t secured tickets.
Ms Swift is due to perform again in London from August 15 to 20 while her three concerts – last night, today and tomorrow – in Vienna have now been cancelled.
Taylor Swift has cancelled her three upcoming Vienna, Austria concerts after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack on her shows – Swift is pictured performing in London in June
Taylor Swift performs on stage at Wembley Stadium on June 22, 2024
The popstar, 34, was due to perform at Vienna’s Ernst-Happel Stadion (pictured) on August 8, 9, and 10
Swift’s concert promoter confirmed the cancellation in a post, citing public safety
The 19-year-old ISIS fanatic has been identified as Beran A., who lived in a newly-built semi-terraced house in Ternitz, south of Vienna, where he spent his childhood
The 19-year-old man – who was living in his parents’ house (white house pictured right) along with another man – was arrested on Wednesday after police raided the home
Taylor Swift fans gathered in Vienna (pictured)
The shows were expected to be attended by 65,000 concertgoers per day, with an additional 10,000 to 15,000 fans outside of the area, police said – Swift pictured performing in Amsterdam in July
The 152-date concert series, in which Swift runs through hits from her 17-year career, is expected to surpass $2 billion by the end of its run in December, with the staggering per night receipts revealed by Variety last month – pictured performing in Munich last month
One local, who gave her name as Mara, said she last saw him on Tuesday, adding: ‘He looked like how you would imagine a sleeper agent for a terrorist cell.’
Bomb experts who searched his house seized ‘technical equipment’ and chemicals which can be used to produce the sort of explosives previously used by IS. Director-general for public safety Franz Ruf told journalists: ‘A clear threat has been averted.’
