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Love Parade victims mourned in Germany
The memorial service, held in Duisburg, Germany, was attend to by thousands of mourners to pay their respects to the 21 people who died during the techno festival last week, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As anger grows over the tragedy, many comment that the Love Parade “has become a dance with death.”
This message was delivered by Nikolaus Schneider, head of Germany’s Protestant Church. “In the midst of a celebration of the joy of life, death showed his terrible face to us all.”
The service was broadcasted on live television, on large screens in and around Duisburg’s football stadium and in churches. A large black cross was set up on the football pitch with 21 candles, one for each of those killed on Saturday.
Later on today, a march was due to take place from Duisburgtrain station towards the narrow tunnel that served as the only entrance to the festival grounds. It was in this jam-packed tunnel that the victims died whilst trying to flee the crowd. The dead included seven foreigners from Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, China, Bosniaand Spain.
More than 500 people were hurt. 25 of them are still in hospital. Meantime, Adolf Sauerland, Duisburg’s mayor has come under intense pressure to resign. He is being accused of ignoring warnings about the event being “a disaster waiting to happen.”
