In early October 2023, a Berlin court received an indictment against a young Syrian man, referred to as Mohammad A. per German privacy regulations. The charges brought against him by federal prosecutors include providing support to a foreign terrorist organisation and planning a significant act of violence.
According to the prosecution, Mohammad A. adhered to the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) and maintained contact between July and August of the previous year with an individual in Austria who was plotting an attack during a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. He is alleged to have contributed by translating bomb-making instructions from Arabic and facilitating online communication with an IS member located abroad.
Moreover, the indictment states that Mohammad A. supplied the Austrian individual with a text needed for an oath of allegiance to IS, which the accomplice used to affiliate himself with the terrorist group.
Despite the severity of the allegations, he is not currently in custody. The next step involves the court determining if the case should proceed to trial and establishing the timeline for any potential proceedings.