Four days ago, on July 24 happened one of the biggest tragedies in a music Festival! 21 people were killed and 510 injured in Duisburg, Germany, where about 1.4 million people (!!!) gathered for the Love Parade, the Festival of electronic (techno) music.
In a town that has about 500,000 inhabitants appeared almost three times that in one of the most famous Festivals of Europe. The Love Parade began in 1989 in Berlin, shortly before the fall of the city wall. Created under the slogan of peace and love and the music that characterized it is from the electronic - techno scene with the most well known djs playing in it.
This year, nearly broke the record from two years ago in Dortmund, which was attended by 1,600,000 people, but unfortunately Duisburg is too little a town to meet that many people (not that Dortmund is much bigger). The main entrance of the "Love Parade" was a tunnel and when it was full of people and others kept coming, the tunnel at some point had too many people trapped in it and panic ensued. Of course, people were informed that the entrance was closed because the space was filled, but people continued to enter from there ... 21 people died from suffocation or because they were trampled underfoot and over 500 were injured!!!
The organizers did not inform the crowd directly as to not create panic and things get worse. Of course after a while the Love Parade stopped.
Two people who were at the Festival said the following in German media: " The people were pressed against a wall. I was afraid to die ", " I was lucky, I found a hole to escape, but I saw two dead women about me. "
O Moby said the following about the tragedy: " This just makes me so unspeakably sad: My heart goes out to the families and friends of the people who were killed, and also the people who were injured. It's just tragic and terrible. "
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cut her holiday in half to get to Duisburg on Saturday, for the memorial service for the memory of the 21 people who lost their lives in the Love Parade.
In the aftermath of the tragedy one of the organizers, Rainer Schaller said there will be no more Love Parade, out of respect for the people who lost their lives.
In a town that has about 500,000 inhabitants appeared almost three times that in one of the most famous Festivals of Europe. The Love Parade began in 1989 in Berlin, shortly before the fall of the city wall. Created under the slogan of peace and love and the music that characterized it is from the electronic - techno scene with the most well known djs playing in it.
This year, nearly broke the record from two years ago in Dortmund, which was attended by 1,600,000 people, but unfortunately Duisburg is too little a town to meet that many people (not that Dortmund is much bigger). The main entrance of the "Love Parade" was a tunnel and when it was full of people and others kept coming, the tunnel at some point had too many people trapped in it and panic ensued. Of course, people were informed that the entrance was closed because the space was filled, but people continued to enter from there ... 21 people died from suffocation or because they were trampled underfoot and over 500 were injured!!! The organizers did not inform the crowd directly as to not create panic and things get worse. Of course after a while the Love Parade stopped.
Two people who were at the Festival said the following in German media: " The people were pressed against a wall. I was afraid to die ", " I was lucky, I found a hole to escape, but I saw two dead women about me. " O Moby said the following about the tragedy: " This just makes me so unspeakably sad: My heart goes out to the families and friends of the people who were killed, and also the people who were injured. It's just tragic and terrible. "
German Chancellor Angela Merkel cut her holiday in half to get to Duisburg on Saturday, for the memorial service for the memory of the 21 people who lost their lives in the Love Parade.
In the aftermath of the tragedy one of the organizers, Rainer Schaller said there will be no more Love Parade, out of respect for the people who lost their lives.
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