Monday July 26, 2010
Focus Shifts to Organizers after Love Parade Stampede
Spiegel International
German officials confirmed on Sunday that 19 people died and 342 were injured during the mass panic that turned Saturday's Love Parade in Duisburg into a tragedy. Prosecutors have launched an investigation, with initial questions focusing on the organizers' crowd control strategy.
In 1989, the Love Parade started in Berlin as a peace demonstration. On Saturday, the festival, held in Germany's industrial Ruhr region since 2007, ended in disaster in Duisburg when a mass panic resulted in the deaths of 19 partygoers. A further 340 were injured in the stampede.
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