Mourners mark seventh anniversary of Love Parade stampede

Record ID: 903806

  • Title: Mourners mark seventh anniversary of Love Parade stampede
  • Date: 23rd July 2017
  • Summary: DUISBURG, GERMANY (JULY 23, 2017) (REUTERS) TUNNEL WHERE STAMPEDE DURING LOVE PARADE 2010 HAPPENED VARIOUS OF MOURNERS PLACING CANDLES AT TUNNEL CANDLES MOURNERS AT MEMORIAL WITH BANNER READING (German): "LOVE WILL NEVER END" VARIOUS OF MOURNERS SITTING NEXT TO MEMORIAL LITTLE GIRLS RUNNING BY CANDLES VARIOUS OF GABI MUELLER, MOTHER TO ONE OF THE VICTIMS, AT MEMORIAL (SOUNDBITE) (German) GABI MUELLER, MOTHER TO ONE OF THE VICTIMS, SAYING: "Yes, (I also have) scepticism (on the outcome of the court case). It is very important that a catastrophe like this never happens again. There are so many possibilities and ways of planning it even though there are laws. It cannot be that it apparently is prepared and tested. Someone must be held responsible."
  • 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: LVA0016QXTBGN
  • 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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