Snipers patrol stadium roof prime at Vienna Coldplay live performance amid big police presence at efficiency days after metropolis’s terror cops foiled assault on Taylor Swift exhibits

Snipers patrolled the stadium roof throughout Coldplay’s live performance in Vienna amid heightened safety after police foiled a doable terror assault on Taylor Swift’s exhibits within the Austrian capital.

Chris Martin and his band took to the stage on the Ernst Happel Stadium on Wednesday evening within the first live performance to happen on the venue because the Eras tour exhibits have been cancelled.

Photos of a police marksman emerged on-line, with Vienna cops reassuring the general public: ‘Our job is to comprehensively safe the live performance, together with the positioning on the roof.’ 

‘Don’t fret concerning the police and benefit from the live performance as an alternative!’ the police power added.

Coldplay performed Swift’s 2008 hit Love Story throughout their set, with frontman Martin paying tribute to ‘the sweetness and the togetherness and the kindness of all of the Taylor Swift followers.’

Swift had been as a consequence of carry out in entrance of an estimated 170,000 followers on August 8, 9, and 10, and the cancellation of the exhibits left many Swifties devastated. 

The 34-year-old pop star was reportedly left ‘devastated’ after being compelled to cancel the Austrian leg of her tour, and vowed to return to Vienna ‘as quickly as doable’.

‘Having our Vienna exhibits cancelled was devastating’, she wrote in an Instagram publish on Wednesday evening. 

‘The rationale for the cancellations stuffed me with a brand new sense of concern, and an amazing quantity of guilt as a result of so many individuals had deliberate on coming to these exhibits.

‘However I used to be additionally so grateful to the authorities as a result of due to them, we have been grieving live shows and never lives.’

The American singer mentioned the delay in her releasing her assertion was to guard the security of her followers. 

She continued: ‘Let me be very clear: I’m not going to discuss one thing publicly if I believe doing so would possibly provoke those that would wish to hurt the followers who come to my exhibits. 

 ‘In instances like this one, ‘silence’ is definitely displaying restraint, and ready to specific your self at a time when it is proper to.’

Swift was additionally mentioned to have been ‘horrified’ by the considered a terror assault happening at one in every of her exhibits, as one did in 2017 at popstar Ariana Grande’s gig in Manchester.

Austrian authorities have since arrested three teenage suspects aged 17, 18 and 19. 

The 19-year-old suspect was later named as Beran A, an ISIS fanatic who was constructing a bomb in his mother and father’ again backyard as he deliberate to mow down concertgoers.

He was radicalised by a infamous hate-preacher in Berlin, in accordance with German intelligence sources. 

Austria’s chancellor Karl Nehammer mentioned on X following information of the preliminary arrests: ‘Due to the intensive cooperation of our police and the newly established DSN (Directorate for Safety and Intelligence) with overseas providers, the risk was recognized early on, combated, and a tragedy was prevented.’