A 21-year-old Austrian man who admitted plotting a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna during the singer’s Eraz Tour has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.The man was identified in court only as ‘Beron A’ under Austrian privacy laws. He pleaded guilty to planning an attack on one of Swift’s sold-out concerts at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium in August 2024. A well-planned attack could have resulted in massive casualties.The concert was canceled shortly before it was to begin after Austrian authorities received information from the CIA about a suspected plot. Approximately 200,000 fans were expected to attend the three shows. Beran A was arrested a few days before the concert. He was radicalized online and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. He planned to use knives or homemade explosives to attack concertgoers. They also tried unsuccessfully to obtain illegal weapons, including machine guns and hand grenades.Court documents say he used an Islamic State video as guidance when attempting to make explosives.During Thursday’s hearing in Wiener Neustadt, south of Vienna, Baron A apologized before the jury retired to consider its verdict.“I would just like to say that I am sorry,” he told the court.Court psychiatrist Peter Hoffmann said the accused showed no signs of mental illness and there was “no psychiatric explanation” for his radicalization.Baron A’s lawyer, Anna Mair, argued that her client was “not an ideological mastermind”.The case attracted international attention because it targeted Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Erasure Tour, one of the largest concert tours in history.Swift later spoke publicly about the canceled Vienna concerts and described the event as avoiding a “genocide situation”. A documentary about the Eras Tour also revealed that the singer learned about the alleged bomb plot during a trip to Austria.A second 21-year-old man from Slovakia, identified as Arda K, was also on trial in the same case. Both men are accused of being associated with Islamic State cells.However, authorities said Arda was not directly involved in the Taylor Swift concert plot.The pair were linked to planning attacks in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as well as other cities in Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates.Baron A denied separate charges relating to those international conspiracies but admitted involvement in the planning of the Vienna concert attack.