Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner reported on Friday the Arrest of an 18-year-old linked to the 19-year-old detainee who confessed plan a suicide bombing at one of three Taylor Swift concerts scheduled for Vienna.

At a press conference, the Austrian minister announced that the Prosecutor’s Office has requested the imposition of preventive detention on charges of terrorism for the 19-year-old ringleader and a 17-year-old accomplice. The judge’s decision is expected on Friday. The two detainees are accused of supporting the terrorist objectives of the jihadist group “Islamic State.”

Another minor – aged 15 – who had been arrested on Wednesday has been released after being questioned and investigators rule out his involvement in the plans, although his testimony will be used as a witness. The 18-year-old Iraqi citizen now detained is believed to have maintained contact with the main suspect and although, according to Karner, There is no evidence that he was directly involved in the attack plans.is known to have sworn allegiance to the “Islamic State.”

The prime suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian citizen with roots in North Macedonia, had already confessed to planning an attack on one of Taylor Swift’s concerts scheduled in Vienna on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He had a high-powered liquid explosive that he had made himself and He planned to attack the crowd of ‘swifties’ with his car who had run out of tickets and were going to gather outside the Ernst Happel Stadium.

The goal was to kill “as many people as possible” with an explosive device and knives and machetes. The 17-year-old also arrested, Austrian with Turkish-Croatian roots, was already known to the Austrian security services.

This defendant had been working for days at the stadium where the concert was to be held in a company that was preparing the show.Austrian authorities say they are not looking for other suspectsbut the investigation into the contacts of the two detainees continues and, in that context, more arrests may occur.