BERLIN: Germany has charged a Syrian national with supporting a foreign terrorist organization for helping to plan a foiled attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last year, the prosecutor general said in a statement on Friday.
Identified as Mohammad A, the suspect helped the would-be attacker by translating Arabic bomb-building instructions and putting him in contact with a member of the Islamic State militia online, according to the charges against him.
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Germany charges Syrian national in connection with Taylor Swift concert plot
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Germany charges Syrian national in connection with Taylor Swift concert plot
- Germany charges Syrian national in connection with Taylor Swift concert plot
Police officer killed, 24 people injured in bombs explosions in Ukraine’s Lviv
- The police said that the first explosion occurred after a patrol crew arrived at the suspected scene of a shop break-in
KYIV: One police officer was killed and 24 other people were injured after several explosive devices detonated at midnight in Lviv in western Ukraine, the National Police said on Sunday.
“It has been preliminarily established that homemade explosive devices detonated,” the police said on the Telegram messaging service.
The police said that the first explosion occurred after a patrol crew arrived at the suspected scene of a shop break-in, while the second explosion occurred a little later.
The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, called the incident a terrorist act.
“It has been preliminarily established that homemade explosive devices detonated,” the police said on the Telegram messaging service.
The police said that the first explosion occurred after a patrol crew arrived at the suspected scene of a shop break-in, while the second explosion occurred a little later.
The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, called the incident a terrorist act.
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