Mourners mark seventh anniversary of Love Parade stampede

Record ID: 903804

  • Title: Mourners mark seventh anniversary of Love Parade stampede
  • Date: 23rd July 2017
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (German) GABI MUELLER, MOTHER TO ONE OF THE VICTIMS, SAYING: "I think it is a thing right now and it should be. When we are here and one cries, I don´t know, people who normally come here know each other, but when someone is surrounded by people they don´t know then I don´t find it ok." CROSSES AT MEMORIAL (SOUNDBITE) (German) MOURNER, CARMEN SEEGEWISS, SAYING: "Then I lived in the city centre, we heard the helicopters, the ambulances...It was all terrible and I just wanted to cry. We didn't know anyone but it was bad." VARIOUS TOP SHOTS OF MEMORIAL CLOSE UP OF MEMORIAL (SOUNDBITE) (German) MOURNER, UTE FRITSCH, SAYING: "I come every year, my daughter was here but thank God she left earlier, my cousin was part of the rescue team, that was quite tough, and since then I come every year." FRITSCH LIGHTING UP CANDLE AND PLACING IT AT MEMORIAL
  • Embargoed: 6th August 2017 22:29
  • Keywords: mourners seventh anniversary Duisburg's love parade in 2010 Germany
  • Location: DUISBURG, GERMANY
  • City: DUISBURG, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA0036QXTBGN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Candles were placed at the site where 21 people were killed in a stampede during a Love Parade in the German town of Duisburg in 2010 on Sunday evening (July 23) to mark the seventh anniversary of the tragedy with "The night of the 1000 candles".
    Relatives remembered all those - aged between 20 and 40 - who were killed and the more than 500 injured on July 24, 2010 when hordes of young people pushed through a tunnel into the techno festival area at a former freight rail yard in the city.
    On Monday (July 24), the actual day of the anniversary, the site will be opened to the public for the first time but some relatives were not yet ready for that step.
    "When we are here and one cries, I don´t know, people who normally come here know each other, but when someone is surrounded by people they don´t know then I don´t find it ok," said Gabi Mueller, who lost her son in the tragedy.
    Families are waiting for the outcome of a case against ten festival organisers and city employees who face a criminal trial after a court in nearby Dusseldorf reopened the case in April.
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