Taylor Swift is about to return to London’s Wembley Stadium in one other week to wrap up the European leg of her Eras Tour. However sadly, it’s not a wholly pleased time proper now concerning live performance safety.
As we’ve been reporting, the reveals scheduled for this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Vienna, Austria have been canceled after authorities uncovered a terror plot to assault concertgoers. And now, with Taylor set to return to Wembley (the place she famously carried out earlier within the tour’s run, as effectively), London officers are taking no probabilities.
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On Thursday, the UK’s Minister for Policing, Diana Johnson, spoke to radio station LBC about preparations for Tay’s reveals. Per Johnson, officers from the London Metropolitan Police and different outfits have been arduous at work readying safety for these reveals:
“Clearly, the police shall be taking a look at all of the intelligence and making selections, they danger assess each occasion that occurs on this nation, and that’s one thing for the police.”
The London Metropolitan Police added an announcement, as effectively, by way of The Unbiased:
“London performs host to a big variety of very excessive profile occasions every year with tens of millions of tourists having a secure and fulfilling expertise. The Met works carefully with venue safety groups and different companions to make sure there are applicable safety and policing plans in place.”
Fortunately, on the finish of their assertion, the London Metropolitan Police indicated there may be nothing they’ve seen up to now that implies a terror plot of any variety directed at Swift’s reveals at Wembley:
“There may be nothing to point that the issues being investigated by the Austrian authorities will have an effect on upcoming occasions right here in London. As all the time, we are going to proceed to maintain any new info beneath cautious evaluate.”
That’s a aid. We will solely hope there are certainly no acts of violence as Taylor and her crew return to London.
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