GERMANY: Angry Duisburg residents demand mayor resigns overafter Love Parade stampede

Record ID: 449526

  • Title: GERMANY: Angry Duisburg residents demand mayor resigns overafter Love Parade stampede
  • Date: 30th July 2010
  • Summary: DUISBURG, GERMANY (JULY 29, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SOME 100 PROTESTERS OUTSIDE DUISBURG CITY HALL WITH SIGNS READING "WHO IS GUILTY?" AND AN EFFIGY OF MAYOR ADOLF SAUERLAND AND THE LOVE PARADE ORGANISER VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS LISTENING TO MAN ADDRESSING CROWD, TELLING PEOPLE "WE DON'T WANT REVENGE" YOUTHS WATCHING (SOUNDBITE) (German) DUISBURG RESIDENT, ACHIM BRENDEL SAYING: "I am here to show that it cannot go on like this, that those responsible are trying to get away. We hope with this demo we can get mayor Sauerland to resign." WOMAN PRAYING WIDE OF PROTEST NORTH-RHINE WESTPHALIA STATE INTERIOR MINISTER RALF JAEGER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (German) NORTH-RHINE WESTPHALIA STATE INTERIOR MINISTER, RAF JAGUAR SAYING: "According to the current status of the investigation the city of Duisburg allowed the organisers to circumvent laws concerning emergency exits. This surely will play a role in the further judicial investigations and why the city allowed this to happen." EXTERIOR OF CITY HALL (SOUNDBITE) (German) NORTH-RHINE WESTPHALIA STATE INTERIOR MINISTER, RALF JAEGER SAYING: "Although this still needs to be analysed I don't think mayor Sauerland is legally guilty but there is a moral responsibility towards the people and the question of moral responsibility is one which I think Mr. Sauerland needs to answer very quickly now." DUISBURG, GERMANY (RECENT: JULY 25, 2010) (REUTERS) REPORTERS SEATED AT NEWS CONFERENCE AT CITY HALL ONE DAY AFTER ACCIDENT DUISBURG MAYOR ADOLF SAUERLAND LOOKING ON PEOPLE WATCHING FROM BALCONY SAUERLAND TALKING
  • Embargoed: 14th August 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAF4L9W0AGJ8O0ZMHH3R6CY00J4
  • Story Text: Angry residents in the German city of Duisburg demanding their mayor's resignation five days after 21 young people died in the Love Parade stampede get support from
    the state's interior minister who says the man has a moral responsibility to stand down.
    Some 100 angry people protested outside city hall in the German town of Duisburg on Thursday (July 29), demanding the resignation of their mayor following last weekend's
    Love Parade stampede which killed 21 people.
    Holding up placards reading "21 dead because of greed! Take responsibility!," the demonstrators said they wanted justice.
    Achim Brendel, an elderly man said "I am here to show that it can not go on like this, that those responsible are trying to get away."
    "We hope with this demo we can get mayor Sauerland to resign," said Brendel.
    The state's interior minister, Ralf Jaeger indirectly supported the demonstrators, telling reporters "although this still needs to be analysed I don't think mayor (Adolf) Sauerland
    is legally guilty but there is a moral responsibility towards the people and the question of moral responsibility is one which I think Mr. Sauerland needs to answer very quickly now."
    Germany was shocked by the deaths of 21 people when panic broke out at the Love Parade techno music festival in Duisburg last Saturday.
    Many were baffled that such a tragedy could occur in their highly organised and closely regulated country.
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