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19  21 young people were killed in a stampede in a tunnel at The Loveparade,

with at least 350 500 others injured.

The processing of the tragedy at the loveparade 2010 in Duisburg / Germany began

and it´s getting clearer that there have been massive security holes on the part of the organizers.

The width of the escape routes as well as the area,

which were certified for 250.000 humans excluding only, are first starting points.

It is called further that the city Duisburg and the organizer would have saved further costs

with the Loveparade, which could have prevented a possible disaster.

http://twitgeridoo.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/loveparade-2010-mein-gedachtnisprotokoll/

We see love in action in this video. Some trying to help those in needs.

i´m very sad because this could have been prevented...

it was so unneccessary...

for years and years something like that never happened...

the loveparade was about fun and love and party and dancing to techno music

and in all these past years it has been peaceful

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here is what CNN says about the loveparade desaster

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/07/24/germany.parade.stampede.cnn

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UPDATE july 26 2010

the mayor of duisburg is getting attacked by people, they throw waste after him.

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hundrets of people visit the place in the last days flowers are brought to the tunnel

heartbreaking scenes of crying mothers and traumatized people

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the following four links are videos from german SPIEGEL TV

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UPDATE july 27 2010

not 19 but 20 dead people, a young woman died in hospital last night .

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the history of The Loveparade

The Loveparade first occurred four months before the opening of the Berlin Wall.

It was started by the Berlin Underground under the initiative of Matthias Roeingh aka "Dr Motte"

and his then girlfriend Danielle de Picciotto.

It was held as a political demonstration for peace and international understanding

through love and music.

Until 1996, the parade was held on the Berlin Kurfürstendamm.

Since by then, not only the Kurfürstendamm was overcrowded

but the nearby streets and even railway tracks,

the parade moved to the Straße des 17. Juni in the Tiergarten park in the center of Berlin,

where there was more space.

The center of the parade was the Siegessäule in the middle of the park,

and the golden angel on top of the column has become

a symbol of the parade.

Rainer Schaller, president and chief executive officer of McFit

and the Love Parade organizing company LopaventMany people from Germany

and abroad travelled to Berlin to take part in the Parade—over a million attended in the years 1997

through 2000 and 800,000 in 2001.

Attendance at the 2001 festival was significantly lower because the date of the parade

was changed with little advance notice.

2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures,

and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was canceled due to funding difficulties.

2004 did however host a scaled-down version which served more as a mini-protest,

and was promoted with the title 'Love Weekend'.

Dozens of clubs promoted the weekend-long event all over the city,

with various clubs staying open for 3 days straight without closing.

In 2006, the parade made a comeback with the help of German exercise studio McFit.

The Love Parade 2007 was planned for July 7, 2007 in Berlin.

However, the Berlin event was cancelled in February as

the Senate of Berlin had not issued the necessary permissions at that time.

After negotiations with several German cities,

on July 21, it was announced that the Love Parade would move to the Ruhr Area for the next five years.

The first event took place in Essen on August 25.

The Parade in Essen saw 1.2 million visitors in comparison to the 500,000 who attended

the 2006 parade in Berlin.

In 2008, the festival took place in Dortmund on July 19 on the Bundesstraße 1

under the motto Highway of Love.

The event was planned as a "Love Weekend", with parties throughout the region.

For the first time the Turkish electronic scene was represented by its own float,

called "Turkish Delights". The official estimate is that 1.6 million visitors attended,

which makes it the largest Loveparade to date.

The 2009 event, planned for Bochum, was cancelled;

a year later, the deaths of 19 attendees at the Duisburg venue prompted the Love Parade's founder Rainer Schaller to declare an end to the iconic festival.

"The Love Parade has always been a peaceful party,

but it will forever be overshadowed by the accident,

so out of respect for the victims the Love Parade will never take place again," Schaller said.

The music played at the events is predominantly electronic dance music:

in this case mainly Trance, House, Techno, and Schranz music.

Attempts to introduce other music styles, such as hip hop, have failed.

Hardcore and Gabber music were part of the parade in early years,

but were later removed.

They are now celebrated separately on a counter-demonstration called "Fuckparade".

The Love Parade is seen to be louder and more crowded than most concerts.

With its water-cooled sound systems on every truck,

the parade produced an extremely loud sound floor.

After the 2001 arrangement, vets at Berlin Zoo blamed the Love Parade for giving more than half

of its animal diarrhea.

Chairman Heiner Kloes said vets told him the heavy bass was to blame for disturbing the animals.

The parade consists of the sound trucks that usually feature local, or important,

clubs and their DJs.

It has become a rule that only trucks that have sponsors from a techno related field,

such as clubs, labels or stores,

are allowed, but advertising space was increased after the 2006 event

to offset the high costs of equipping a truck.

The trucks are usually open on top and feature dancers,

with box-systems mounted on the side or rear.

The Love Parade is a place where some exhibit

and enjoy other people's exhibitionist tendencies.

Some attendees enjoy carrying around toys such as pacifiers or face masks.

Often the crowd is imaginative in terms of clothing (or lack thereof) and appearance.

One famous picture from the Love Parade is people sitting and

dancing on streetlamps, trees, commercial signs, telephone booths,

which gave the event's nickname "the greatest amateur circus on earth".

The Love Parade has been quite peaceful for event of its size, seeing few arrests.

Arrests are usually related to drug crimes and most other incidents feature

mostly people passing out due to dehydration or hyperthermia.

In 2000, after the parade, a girl under the influence of ecstasy was run over by an S-Bahn

after she had been leaning on the door too hard.

The finale of the demonstration is by the so-called "Abschlusskundgebung"

which are half-hour sets of the world's leading top DJs such as

DJ Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, Carl Cox, Armin Van Buuren, DJ Rush, DJ Hell, Westbam,

Drum Connection, Miss Djax, Marusha or Chris Liebing.

During this time all trucks (usually about 40) are connected to each other

and set online to the statue of victory where the turntables are.

This is one of the few chances a DJ can ever have to play for

a crowd of about one million people.

At the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany,

the number of people attending reached 1.4 million,

when the original expectation was around 800,000.

[why did they expect only 800,000 people???]

At least 19 people were killed, and hundreds [more than 300] injured,

in an overcrowded tunnel leading into the festival.

Safety experts and a fire service investigator had previously warned

that the site was not suitable for the numbers expected to attend.

Organizer and CEO Rainer Schaller said they will not continue the festival in the future.

*taken from Wikipedia

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UPDATE july 27 2010