The harrowing terror plot with chilling echoes of Manchester Arena attack - and the reminder why action is needed
manchestereveningnews.co.ukCountless young lives may have been saved when Austrian authorities foiled a terror plot at three Taylor Swift concerts this week.
The horrific plans had chilling echoes of the Manchester Arena bombing, which claimed the lives of 22 innocent people following an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, 2017.
Austrian authorities have since arrested three suspects in connection with the conspiracy. They say that the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian citizen, had hoped to 'kill as many people as possible' outside the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna - where up to 30,000 onlookers would have gathered outside while 65,000 people attended the gig inside the venue.
Figen Murray, mum of Manchester Arena bomb victim Martyn Hett, has spent the years following the atrocity campaigning for mandatory measures to prepare venues for possible attacks - known as Martyn's Law.
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