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By Paul Sandle
LONDON -British police mentioned there was nothing to point {that a} deliberate assault on a Taylor Swift live performance in Vienna would have any impression on her return subsequent week to Wembley Stadium, London, for her 5 closing reveals in Europe.
Swift’s three concert events in Vienna, anticipated to attract 195,000 folks, had been cancelled this week after police there mentioned that they had foiled an assault by a 19-year-old Austrian who was intent on attacking followers with a bomb or knife.
Her record-breaking Eras tour got here to Britain in June, with reveals in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Cardiff, earlier than she visited London for 3 nights, with the now-prime minister, Keir Starmer, and members of the royal household within the crowd.
She is going to return to Wembley on August 15 for 5 nights earlier than heading again to North America for her closing dates of Eras, which has change into the best grossing live performance tour of all time, in line with experiences.
“There’s nothing to point that the issues being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an effect on upcoming occasions right here in London,” a spokesperson for London’s Metropolitan Police mentioned.
Austrian police detained two folks on Wednesday on suspicion of plotting assaults on concert events. They mentioned one, a 19 year-old suspect, had a specific concentrate on the Swift concert events in Vienna.
London’s Met Police mentioned hundreds of thousands of tourists had a secure and satisfying expertise at high-profile occasions in London yearly, with Bruce Springsteen enjoying at Wembley in July.
“The Met works intently with venue safety groups and different companions to make sure there are applicable safety and policing plans in place,” the spokesperson mentioned.
“As at all times, we are going to proceed to maintain any new data beneath cautious overview.”
FANS’ DISMAY
Followers of the singer turned to social media to specific their dismay over the Vienna cancellations, their fears that the London nights may be cancelled, and to ask for tickets.
“If anybody is promoting 2 tickets for Taylor Swift for ANY evening in London Wembley pls pls message me, from a really determined and devastated woman in Vienna x x,” a consumer referred to as Haz mentioned on X.
Tickets to see Swift in Britain offered out quickly as followers battled to see essentially the most high-profile tour in years. A common admission standing ticket for Wembley price 110.40 kilos .
The identical tickets had been obtainable on resale web sites similar to Viagogo and StubHub for greater than 1,200 kilos every on Thursday.
Police in Britain are already on excessive alert after racist riots broke out, concentrating on immigrants and Muslim communities following the homicide of three women at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, northwest England, on July 29.
“These had been simply little youngsters at a dance class,” Swift mentioned the day after that assault.
Policing in Britain has been stepped up because the violence erupted and enormous anti-racist counter-demonstrations thwarted additional violence on Wednesday.
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