those people who planned and organised it....either I am stupid or others are, but for me this is one of the easiest questions

Not the mayor, then?:confused:

well, yes including him...

They reckon he'll have to go into self-imposed exile or something................

The blame lies with the people whom closed the exit of the tunnel without closing the way in, it also lies with the planners whom didn't plan any escape routes

So who do you think should be assuming responsibility?

 

This is an easy question. Everyone who was involved! In the first place the mayor of Duisburg who allowed the love parade to take place at that area although people mentioned security risks beforehand. Btw, Bochum cancelled the love parade last year because they admitted that the city is just to small for such an event. Then the police wasn't possibly innocent as well. And another culprit is definitely the organiser.

This is an easy question. Everyone who was involved! In the first place the mayor of Duisburg who allowed the love parade to take place at that area although people mentioned security risks beforehand. Btw, Bochum cancelled the love parade last year because they admitted that the city is just to small for such an event. Then the police wasn't possibly innocent as well. And another culprit is definitely the organiser.

 

In that case, the courts are likely to be very busy over the coming months..................

Terrible article, couldn't make out how it happened, and what the hell is up with them showing a collage of SUNGLASSES lost in the cram?

it was so bad people lost their sunglasses:o

Candles lit for 21 victims of Love Parade music festival disaster as Germany mourns

 

 

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 4:58 PM on 31st July 2010

 

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Thousands of mourners watched in tears today as German rescue workers lit one white candle for each of the 21 people crushed to death in a tunnel at the Love Parade techno music festival.

 

About 500 people attended the ceremony at Salvator church in the western city of Duisburg - the scene of the tragedy a week ago - and many times more watched the event on screens in the city's football stadium and a dozen other churches.

Several TV stations carried the service live, and flags across the country flew at half-mast.

 

Sadness: Candles were lit at the ceremony for the victims of the Love Parade disaster, which was attended by (l to r) German Bundestag president Norbert Lammert, Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Christian Wulff and his wife Bettina and Hannelore Kraft, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia

 

 

 

Tributes: A young man places a candle among thousands of others at the scene of last week's tragedy in Duisburg

 

'The Love Parade was danced to death,' Nikolaus Schneider, the head of the Rhineland Lutheran church assembly, said in his opening sermon, following sombre organ music and prayers for the deceased.

'In the middle of a celebration of lust for life, death showed its ugly face to all of us.'

The 21 people who died were aged 18 to 38 and included foreigners from Spain, Australia, Italy, Bosnia, China and Holland. Another 500 people were injured, and 25 of them are still in hospital.

 

Among those at Salvator church were German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Christian Wulff, family members of the victims and many relief workers who had helped rescue the injured.

 

Remembering: A crucifix lies on the pitch in the Duisburg stadium where the memorial service was shown on big TV screens

 

 

 

Grief: A woman is comforted by a friend during a march to the scene of the tunnel tragedy today

 

In the afternoon, a few hundred mourners marched from the city's train station to the direction of the tunnel. They were holding white balloons, but were not allowed to enter the tunnel, which had been blocked by police out of security concerns.

 

Franz-Josef Overbeck, the Roman Catholic bishop of the neighbouring city of Essen, said: 'Life can be so oppositional: One moment there is a party, the next moment we are lying helplessly on the ground.

'We want to stir our life in secure ways, but don't have it under control.'

The ceremony was led by the two Roman Catholic and Lutheran Protestant clerics - representing Germany's two main denominations.

 

Several rescue workers also spoke, as well as the governor of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia - where Duisburg is located.

 

Visibly shaken, Hannelore Kraft talked about the many partygoers who survived the mass panic and now had to find ways to live on with their traumatic experiences.

 

Her own son, 17-year-old Jan, also attended the Love Parade, but was not injured. For several hours after the tragedy, the governor was not able to contact him because the mobile phone system in Duisburg had collapsed.

 

Huge numbers: The crowd begin to leave the area, some not knowing of the carnage which happened in the tunnel in the background

 

 

 

Panic: Revellers caught up in the crush try to get away as emergency workers attempt to treat the injured

 

'There are many thousands who survived but whose souls were injured,' Ms Kraft said. 'They are suffering in silence.'

After the ceremony, the families of the victims were shielded from reporters and camera teams and taken to an unknown place where they had the chance to talk to counsellors and priests.

 

Anger has been building in recent days over the city's and organiser's resistance to take on responsibility for the deaths.

 

More than 250 people protested in Duisburg on Thursday and demanded the resignation of the city's mayor, Adolf Sauerland.

 

People blame Mr Sauerland and the city's authorities for failing to adequately plan for the event.

 

Private organisers also have come under fire for allegedly trying to squeeze as many as 1.4 million revellers into too small a space and for allowing only one access point onto the festival grounds.

 

Since the tragedy, hundreds of people have lit candles, left notes and placed flowers on the site of the deaths and injuries.

 

Floral tribute: Franz-Josef Overbeck, bishop of Essen, stands in front of candles and flowers laid down for the 21 Love Parade victims

 

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Visibly shaken, Hannelore Kraft talked about the many partygoers who survived the mass panic and now had to find ways to live on with their traumatic experiences.

 

Her own son, 17-year-old Jan, also attended the Love Parade, but was not injured. For several hours after the tragedy, the governor was not able to contact him because the mobile phone system in Duisburg had collapsed.

 

Hannelore Kraft's speech was one of the most emotional ones I've ever seen. Her own son attended the Love Parade so you can imagine how worried she was one week ago. This woman raises my hopes for better politics in North Rhine-Westphalia and for Germany.