The attorney for a defendant in a purported plot to disrupt Taylor Swift concerts claims the accusations are overblown.

The 19-year-old Austrian man was one of three people held last Wednesday when he was apprehended; his name has not been made public due to Austrian privacy laws. Shortly after, Swift’s concerts at Ernst Happel Stadium in the Austrian capital on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were canceled by the promoters. The decision devastated the fans.

According to Austrian investigators, the suspect planned to use homemade explosives or knives to carry out an attack outside the stadium with the goal of killing as many people as possible. They claim that technical gadgets and chemicals were discovered by detectives when they raided the suspect’s house.

The individual admitted, according to authorities last week, that he had begun organizing the attack in July. In an attempt to refute their depiction of a complete confession, defense attorney Werner Tomanek told the Austria Press Agency that while he hasn’t yet received access to the case files, he has a “fragmentary record” of his client’s initial questioning.

Tomanek stated, “He lacked the ability, means, and explosives to carry this out.” He went on to say that the accusations made by the authorities against the 19-year-old suspect were “overacting at its best” and that they were “presenting this exaggeratedly” in order to obtain additional monitoring authority.

Tomanek called his client “a lone wolf without social contacts” and stated that he seemed to have mental health issues. “The alleged attack plans were pure fantasies,” he declared.

According to the APA, the attorney stated that during the initial interrogation by the investigators, the client had acknowledged “in principle to Islamist tendencies” and that he had looked for and made “contact with such people online.” He said that although the young man had made and posted an online oath of allegiance to the Islamic State group, he had quickly removed it.

When asked his client’s motivation, Tomanek said, “Because he found it cool.” According to him, the individual wished to mimic the stances used by the attacker in an incident in Vienna on November 2, 2020, which resulted in the deaths of four people and the gunman, who was also murdered. The gunman had a prior conviction for attempting to join IS in Syria.

Beginning on Thursday, Swift will play five performances in London’s Wembley Stadium.