Today, Thursday, US intelligence revealed some details about the attack plan aimed at concerts for the American singer Taylor Swift in the Austrian capital, Vienna.
David Cohen, the deputy director of the CIA, said that the two suspects who planned to attack the singer’s concert were trying to kill “tens of thousands of people”.
“They planned to kill a large number, tens of thousands of people, at this party,” Cohen said at a national intelligence and security summit in Washington, DC.
The CIA official also confirmed that the US Foreign Intelligence Service provided information to the Austrian authorities to help them stop the attack.
American star Taylor Swift was due to hold three concerts in Vienna as part of her unique tour in August, but it was quickly canceled after the arrest of two young men suspected of being the expected to launch a terrorist attack.
Investigators said a 19-year-old man, said to be linked to the terrorist group ISIS, planned to drive a car with explosives into a crowd of fans. -a singer who was waiting to enter the stadium before the concert. The second accomplice is believed to be younger than the first suspect.
More than 60,000 people could have been inside the stadium at the sold-out concert had it not been cancelled, as well as potentially tens of thousands of people not collecting tickets nearby for celebration.
The authorities are currently investigating the two suspects, who were previously detained, on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist group and a criminal group.
