British Policing Minister Diana Johnson stated Scotland Yard will take a look at “all the intelligence” forward of Taylor Swift returning to the UK for a sequence of live shows.
On Wednesday, the US singer’s three performances in Vienna, Austria, have been cancelled over an obvious plot to launch a terrorist assault at her live performance venue within the metropolis.
Swift was set to carry out on the Ernst Happel Stadium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and is subsequent resulting from play 5 dates at London’s Wembley Stadium between Thursday August 15 and Tuesday August 20.
When requested on LBC radio in regards to the arrests of suspected extremists in Vienna and what this might imply for the ultimate leg of Swift’s UK tour, Ms Johnson stated: “Clearly, the police will be looking at all the intelligence and making decisions, they risk assess every event that happens in this country, and that’s something for the police.
“Can I additionally simply say there’s, after all, a dedication in our manifesto within the General Election to introduce Martyn’s regulation, which, once more, is about ensuring that these … venues which might be topic to terrorist assault have in place all the things that they want by way of maintaining individuals secure, and that might be introduced ahead by the federal government shortly.”
The Metropolitan Police said there are no reports of “something of observe”, regarding Swift, and the force would keep people updated.
On Instagram on Wednesday, event organiser Barracuda Music wrote that “we now have no alternative however to cancel the three scheduled exhibits for everybody’s security” as there had been “affirmation from authorities officers of a deliberate terrorist assault at Ernst Happel Stadium”.
A 19-year-old suspect was arrested in Ternitz, south of Vienna, and a second person in the Austrian capital.
Franz Ruf, the public security director at Austria’s interior ministry, said authorities were aware of “preparatory actions” for a possible attack “and in addition that there’s a focus by the 19-year-old perpetrator on the Taylor Swift live shows in Vienna,” the Austria Press Agency reported.
Mr Ruf said the 19-year-old had pledged an oath of allegiance to the Daesh.
He also said chemical substances were secured and were being evaluated. He did not give more details.
Barracuda Music said that “all tickets might be mechanically refunded inside the subsequent 10 business days”.
Martyn’s Law is named after 2017 Manchester Arena bombing victim Martyn Hett, and is designed to help protect venues against terror attacks. It was part of the new Labour Government’s first King’s Speech. The speech to Parliament sets out the programme for legislation for the Government.
In July, there was a fatal knife attack on three girls, aged six, seven and nine, at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport, which sparked riots throughout the UK.
Swift said she was in “fully in shock” following the deaths at the children’s event.
A suspect has appeared in court charged with the crime.
Swift had thanked Poland’s Warsaw audiences for giving her “the most effective time”, and said she could not “imagine we now have two cities left on the European leg of The Eras Tour”, before the cancellations in Austria.
The 34-year-old singer added: “It’s really flown by. See you quickly Vienna.”
Her consultant, the Home Office and Wembley Stadium have all been contacted for additional remark.
Source: www.anews.com.tr