Vienna Pride parade attack foiled, says Austrian intelligence service

Omar Haijawi-Pirchner from the State Protection and Intelligence Directorate said that there was “no danger for the participants of the parade at any time”.

The trio were arrested before the start of the parade (Theresa Wey/AP)

Austrian authorities have said they foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who had allegedly sympathised with the extremist so-called Islamic State (IS) group.

The head of Austria’s domestic intelligence service told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 and 20, were arrested before the start of Saturday’s Pride parade, which was attended by around 300,000 people, public broadcaster ORF reported.