An Austrian judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit brought by a man convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on Taylor Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour concerts in Vienna, ruling that Disney did not violate his privacy by briefly showing his parents’ home in a documentary series.
The plaintiff, identified as Beran A. under Austrian privacy rules, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in May after admitting his role in the foiled attack. Judge Nicole Baczak dismissed his claim on September 30, finding that he had not lived at the property for two years and was unlikely to return there in the near future.
Beran A. challenged the appearance of the house in the Disney+ series The End of an Era, which was released last December and follows the final stretch of Swift’s record-breaking tour. Part of the series addresses the Vienna threat, which led organizers to cancel all three of Swift’s scheduled concerts in the city.
The ruling turned on whether the brief image of the house interfered with Beran A.’s own private life. Baczak found that his lack of a current connection to the property weakened that claim and said home addresses generally do not receive the highest level of privacy protection.
Disney removed the disputed footage from the series in May 2026. An attorney for the company also told the court that Disney had reached separate settlements with Beran A.’s parents, paying each of them €3,000, or about $3,400, over the appearance of their home. Those settlements resolved the parents’ claims and were separate from their son’s case. Swift is not a party to the lawsuit.
Austrian authorities arrested Beran A. in August 2024 after uncovering a plot to attack people outside Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium during Swift’s Eras Tour. Investigators said he planned to use knives or homemade explosives against concertgoers. The arrests came days before the scheduled performances, and organizers canceled all three Vienna dates after authorities disclosed the threat, leaving tens of thousands of ticket holders without a show.
His attorney, Ulrike Zeller, said he will appeal the privacy ruling, leaving the dispute to continue before a higher Austrian court.
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