“With confirmation from the government officials of a planned terrorist attack … we have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” an Instagram post shared by Barracuda Music Wednesday afternoon read.
The event organizer confirmed all tickets will be automatically refunded. It’s unclear if the shows will be rescheduled.
Swift, 34, has not yet spoken out about the devastating news.
All three of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows in Vienna, Austria, were canceled on Wednesday after the government confirmed a planned terrorist attack. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management “We have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” read an Instagram post shared by Barracuda Music Wednesday afternoon. Instagram/barracuda.music
Authorities confirmed earlier Wednesday afternoon that a 19-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested along with a second unidentified suspect for their affiliation with the planned attack.
Both suspects were radicalized online, Franz Ruf, the director-general for public safety in the Ministry of the Interior, told ABC News.
The teenager is believed to have pledged allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State at the beginning of July.
Swift, seen performing during her Eras Tour stop in Munich, Germany, on July 27, has not yet commented on the news. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Earlier on Wednesday, two suspects were arrested for planning a terrorist attack at Austria’s Ernst Happel Stadium. Brian Jackson – stock.adobe.com
It’s not clear which concert the two detained individuals planned to target. Swift had three shows scheduled in Vienna for Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings.
Austria marked the second to last European city on the Eras Tour . The “Karma” hitmaker is next scheduled to play in London at Wembley Stadium for five nights between August 15 and August 20.
Swift is nearing the end of her record-breaking tour, which kicked off in Glendale, Ariz., in March 2023.
After London, she will head to Miami, New Orleans and Indianapolis in the fall before wrapping up the tour in Canada in December.
It’s unclear which concert the suspects were targeting. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The “Anti-Hero” hitmaker, seen during her Eras Tour concert in Amsterdam on July 5, had shows planned for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Getty Images for TAS Rights Management
“The celebration of the 100th show for me means this is the very first time I’ve acknowledged to myself and admitted that this tour is going to end in December. Like, that’s it,” she told fans during a show in Liverpool, England.
She went on to describe the tour as the “most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened” in her life.
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