Berlin court convicts 16-year-old in foiled Vienna Taylor Swift plot

A Berlin juvenile court on Tuesday convicted a 16 year old identified as Mohammad A. of helping to prepare a foiled terrorist attack aimed at Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna last year and handed him an 18 month suspended sentence under juvenile criminal law. Judges said Mohammad, who was 14 at the time of the plot, made a full confession and had supported the ideology of the so called Islamic State. The verdict can be appealed.

Prosecutors charged Mohammad in June with preparing a serious act of violence endangering the state and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad. The court, which held the proceedings behind closed doors because of the defendant's age, found he translated and transmitted bombmaking instructions, sent a video with technical guidance to the main suspect and arranged contact between that suspect and a member of Islamic State. Officials said he became radicalized through online extremist propaganda.

The planned attack prompted authorities to cancel three sold out shows at Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium in August last year, with nearly 200,000 people expected to attend. Austrian police arrested three teenagers in connection with the plot, including a 19...