Off Topic The Politics Thread

More two-tier policing tonight, with police failing to arrest the thousands of anti-fascists demonstrating peacefully.

 

Three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna this week have been cancelled after officials arrested two people over an apparent plot to launch an attack on a public event in the Vienna area.

The announcement was made by concert organisers Barracuda Music late on Wednesday, after Austrian authorities said they had arrested a 19-year-old man for allegedly planning an Islamist attack in the Vienna region and suggested that Swift’s shows had been the “focus” of the plot.

The man, who had pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group “in recent weeks”, was detained in Lower Austria about an hour from the capital early on Wednesday, Austria’s top security chief, Franz Ruf, told a press conference.


“We have established corresponding preparatory acts and also that there is a focus of the 19-year-old perpetrator on the Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna,” Ruf said.

The man, an Austrian citizen, is believed to have become radicalised on the internet. Ruf said chemical substances had been seized at the suspect’s home and were being evaluated.

A second person believed to have been in contact with the suspect was arrested in Vienna.

Swift had been scheduled to play at the Austrian capital’s Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Barracuda Music said in an Instagram post late on Wednesday, citing government officials’ “confirmation” of a planned attack at the stadium: “We have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety.”


The venue had been sold out for the planned concerts, APA reported, and an estimated 170,000 fans had been expected.

In 2017, 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. The bomber, Salman Abedi, detonated a knapsack bomb in Manchester Arena at the end of Grande’s concert as thousands of young fans were leaving.

An official inquiry reported last year that Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, did not act swiftly enough on key information and missed a significant opportunity to prevent the bombing, the deadliest extremist attack in the UK in recent years.

In November 2020, a convicted Islamic State group sympathiser went on a shooting rampage in central Vienna, killing four and wounding 23 others before police shot him dead. It marked the country’s first deadly jihadist attack.

 

Interesting that Hope Not Hate admitting last night's '100 planned protests' list handed to the Home Office was a hoax. I'm sure all the businesses that closed or were affected by that announcement will be delighted...

 

A hoax by whom? I just looked for this, but couldn't find it. Could you post a link?

I did find this...

Statement: HOPE not hate are monitoring 48 possible locations for disturbances today – HOPE not hate

 

Sooper you’ve got the wrong end of the stick….

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1933625/uk-riots-list-hoax

It was a racist wind up.

But your interpretation is the one being spread by racists on X.

Good debunking of the ‘two tier’ policing stuff here from the hardly left wing Times. Probably paywalled.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/d7...3?shareToken=1228a166aedd136bd41f016b58e99d6f

 

lets see if sooper will remain in his echo chamber....

 

Poor old shamima

 

It’s nice in Damascus this time of year. She’ll be fine.

 

Kamala Harris's strong polling has made her a very slight bookies' favourite for the US election for the first time. Her good choice of running mate will help her further. I think she'll win.

 

Don't shoot the messenger, no winners with this sh*t. As if the police aren't stretched enough...

https://x.com/MahyarTousi/status/1821453741662372070?t=ai7fuUGP3e_XY8m791RY8w&s=19

 

that guys an internet personality. might as well just have copied and pasted tommy robinson instead lol

 

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Bet he doesn’t wear that on the streets of Hull.

 

I just like the fact that they're being called the Farage riots. Nigel doesn't like it, apparently.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/Ho8J8NqeJ97uNM3t/

 

A woman and a young girl stabbed in Leicester Square by a white bloke are rescued by a fella called Abdullah.

No riots yet.

 

Good for him
Give him a medal
He deserves it

 

Two tier protesting and news coverage

 

Fact or piece of fiction on your part about the rescuer?

Turns out the bloke who did the stabbing is a 32 year old named as Ioan Pintaru of no fixed abode..... no report of who saved the child..... although police paid tribute to the people who intervened in the incident.....