The singer Taylor Swift He spoke out for the first time on Wednesday on the foiled attack that led to the cancellation of the three concerts from his ‘Eras ​​Tour’ which was scheduled to take place in Vienna at the beginning of the month and thanked the Austrian authorities for preventing the loss of lives.

“Going on stage in London was a rollercoaster of emotions. The cancellation of our shows in Vienna was devastating.. The reason for them It filled me with a new feeling of fear and tremendous guilt.because many people had planned to attend those concerts. But I also felt very grateful to the authorities because, thanks to them, We were losing concerts and not lives“, he said in an Instagram message.

After finishing her European tour in the United Kingdom, the American artist explained that she decided that “all” her energy “had to be directed towards helping protect the almost half a million people who went to the London concerts, which is why her team worked “hand in hand” with the stadium staff and the British authorities “every day in pursuit of that goal.”

“Let me be very clear: I will not speak about something publicly if I believe that doing so might provoke those who would want to harm the fans who come to my shows. In cases like this, ‘silence’ is actually showing restraintand wait to express yourself at the right time to do so. My priority was to finish our European tour safe and sound.and I can say with great relief that we did it,” he clarified.

Earlier this month, Austrian security forces announced they had foiled a terrorist attack planned for one of the dates of the ‘Eras ​​Tour’ in Vienna. After that, Three teenagers were arrested as suspects of plan a suicide attack.Researchers found an arsenal of chemicals, explosives, detonators and 21,000 euros of counterfeit money at the home of the main suspect, a 19-year-old Islamic State sympathiser who had become radicalised via the Internet.