Post by tyra007 on Jul 27, 2010 12:13:24 GMT -5
Hi,
I don't know if you heard of this but I want to share because our whole country is deeply sad because of what happened last Saturday.
A few years ago we had an electronic music festival in Berlin which took place every year. Unfortunately the city decided to stop it because of the noise and everything. That is why the so called Love Parade was put into another area of Germany which is quite next to where I live: It is called Ruhrgebiet.
This Saturday we had the Love Parade in Duisburg, a city where 490,000 people live. 1,4 Mio people came to the Love Parade. This was the first year the so called floats with the dj's on them stayed in a bounded area. The years before they drove through the streets without any fences around them.
20 people died and over 500 got injured because the bounded area had only 250,000 square metres and their was only one (!!!!) entry for getting in AND out of the area. People had to walk through a tunnel and when they came through there were so many of them that they got in panic.
Here is a youtube video which shows everything. This saturday there will be a memorial ceremony (I hope that is the right word).
The city Duisburg says that it was not their fault. The prosecutor investigates because of murder by negligence.
Our whole country is speechless and stunned.
I am sorry if I don't know the right words for everything.
EDIT: They say something about 19 people who died and over 340 who got injured. This is wrong, like I wrote we have 20 people now who died and over 500 who got injured. Many of them are still in hospital.
I don't know if you heard of this but I want to share because our whole country is deeply sad because of what happened last Saturday.
A few years ago we had an electronic music festival in Berlin which took place every year. Unfortunately the city decided to stop it because of the noise and everything. That is why the so called Love Parade was put into another area of Germany which is quite next to where I live: It is called Ruhrgebiet.
This Saturday we had the Love Parade in Duisburg, a city where 490,000 people live. 1,4 Mio people came to the Love Parade. This was the first year the so called floats with the dj's on them stayed in a bounded area. The years before they drove through the streets without any fences around them.
20 people died and over 500 got injured because the bounded area had only 250,000 square metres and their was only one (!!!!) entry for getting in AND out of the area. People had to walk through a tunnel and when they came through there were so many of them that they got in panic.
Here is a youtube video which shows everything. This saturday there will be a memorial ceremony (I hope that is the right word).
The city Duisburg says that it was not their fault. The prosecutor investigates because of murder by negligence.
Our whole country is speechless and stunned.
I am sorry if I don't know the right words for everything.
EDIT: They say something about 19 people who died and over 340 who got injured. This is wrong, like I wrote we have 20 people now who died and over 500 who got injured. Many of them are still in hospital.