Austrian police

In a tragic incident, law enforcement in Vienna is investigating the death of a 16-year-old Bulgarian girl in the city's Red Light District, an area known for sex work. The circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear, as authorities work to establish the motives behind this disturbing crime.

Security measures have been strengthened in Vienna ahead of the series of concerts scheduled for this week by the British band Coldplay, Austrian police announced today, following the cancellation of Taylor Swift’s shows, which were targeted by a suicide attack plot.

Two teenagers, aged 19 and 17, were arrested for planning a terrorist attack at Taylor Swift’s concerts scheduled to take place in Vienna this weekend. Following this development, the three concerts of the American superstar in the Austrian capital were canceled, disappointing approximately 200,000 fans who were going to watch her perform live.

Three Taylor Swift concerts scheduled to take place in Vienna this week have been canceled following confirmation from Austrian authorities of a planned terrorist attack on the venue.

This was told to the Austrian APA agency at the Ministry of the Interior in Vienna.
"Close cross-border cooperation in the fight against brutal people smugglers is absolutely necessary. The knowledge of Austrian drone specialists is therefore also sought after on the border of Serbia and North Macedonia," Interior Minister Gerhard Karner told the agency.

A controversial annual mass gathering of Croats at Loibacher Feld near the Austrian town of Bleiburg, which has been accused of nurturing nationalist sentiments, is not expected to take place this weekend, Austrian police said on Thursday, after the event was also cancelled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A court in Hungary imprisoned three Bulgarians and one Afghan for life over the deaths of 71 refugees who perished in a lorry in August 2015. In the so-called Parndorf death van case, which made waves internationally, the migrants suffocated in a refrigerator truck while trying to get from Hungary to Germany.

An Austrian police spokesman said that the three women, of Serbian decent, appear to have starved to death.

Anti-fascist demonstrators will stage protests on Saturday against the annual gathering in Bleiburg, which commemorates the tens of thousands of Nazi-allied Croatian troops and civilians killed by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Austrian police reported today that it has uncovered online financial fraud, which, according to an initial estimate, deceived victims in Europe with about 100 million euros, AFP reported, quoted by the Bulgarian National Radio.