GERMANY: German officials want to find out who was responsible for the deaths of 19 people at Love Parade festival

Record ID: 449530

  • Title: GERMANY: German officials want to find out who was responsible for the deaths of 19 people at Love Parade festival
  • Date: 26th July 2010
  • Summary: DUISBURG, GERMANY (JULY 25, 2010) (REUTERS) WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE LOVE PARADE ORGANISER, RAINER SCHALLER AND MAYOR OF DUISBURG, ADOLF SAUERLAND FROM ABOVE JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (German) LOVE PARADE ORGANISER, RAINER SCHALLER, SAYING: "There is a security concept which we put together well ahead of the event together with the police, the city of Duisburg which gave no reason to believe that there would be a problem." CAMERA OPERATOR NEWS CONFERENCE JOURNALISTS (SOUNDBITE) (German) DEPUTY HEAD OF DUISBURG POLICE, DELTEV VON SCHMELING, SAYING: "What I cannot confirm is that there was such a huge amount of pressure within the tunnel or on the site that it had to lead to this accident. Currently I do not have sufficient information to confirm this. What I can confirm is that during the whole day the police erected barriers at various locations in order to take away some of the pressure from the tunnel." JOURNALISTS PANEL FROM BEHIND (SOUNDBITE) (German) MAYOR OF DUISBURG, ADOLF SAUERLAND, SAYING: "The prosecutor's office is now taking on the task of answering all of these pressing questions and I hope that we will very quickly find out where there was frictions, where there were problems and also where mistakes were made. And I think that based on these facts there will also have to be a discussion about who has to take on the responsibility for this." PEOPLE WATCHING PHOTOGRAPHERS PANEL LEAVING NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Embargoed: 10th August 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Showbiz
  • Reuters ID: LVAB5N7O31FNVZIF5WHNZ3GMNSKD
  • Story Text: German officials want to find out who was responsible for the deaths of 19 people at Germany's Love Parade festival.
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