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New videos of the tragedy publishedIt is an unusual step: About a month after the Love Parade tragedy in Duisburg, the organizers have made videos of the surveillance cameras in the network - a total of 22 hours of material. The recordings will show that police blame for the catastrophe of 24 July was. But important questions remain unresolved.
The company Lopavent, host of the techno party, has released the material now on the net - and the controversy over the question of who is to blame for the deaths of 21 people, so that tightened again. A few days before the debate in the Internal Affairs Committee meeting of the North Rhine-Westphalia's regional parliament, the nerves of the parties are apparently blank: While Rainer Schaller, head of the Lopavent stated that he saw himself as an organizer in the moral responsibility for the tragic accident and wanted to publication of the make recordings help to elucidate the events that day, warned the chairman of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, about four weeks after the disaster before the turn to the public: "It would be the last to survivors in the network with the images of her dying to confront relatives. " Moreover, there is a substantial risk of influencing witnesses with the video footage of the incidents. "Mr. Schaller manipulated and obscured, where he can. He is obviously not the truth, but only about saving his own neck," criticizes Wendt.
Prosecutor is not very enthusiastic In fact, on the extra page a dozen videos to see trip on which Love Parade visitors in motion back and forth across the screen. Recordings that reflect not approach the drama of the day. There are films that do not disturb for their own sake hide, nothing, nothing to explain. An idea of the events surrounding the infamous ramp and the tunnel in which countless people were fighting for their lives in cramped, it follows only by the statements, also published the schedule, the timing of individual classification decisions, the reports of the parties and the documents to the end the Love Parade. A subjective and not sure disinterested compilation that is hard to relieve the organizers Schaller runaway under fire and can still contribute to some enlightenment. For if the technical evaluation of the recordings confirm the authenticity and genuineness of the material would be from the police and the municipality to keep Duisburg Lopavent directed blame at least in some respects no more.
Significant "dissonance" between police and Lopavent It is true that in Lopavent-briefing of the Security at the West Entrance / East ", 10 July under the point of formal powers, "the instructions of police and firefighters to be obeyed!" But generally Lopavent was responsible during the event for the order on the premises while the police had to make any regulatory and police security outside the venue and on the access routes. Schneider: "There have been repeated discussions with the police, during which we said that we keep the police tactics to be wrong and where we have requested that we decide what to do on the site. But there was no point. "
"Guests are in the tunnel long STAND NOT STAY" Strategically grossly wrong organization 
That this requirement from 16 clock to the naked cynicism will have, it suggests the documentary material, crucial to do something grossly wrong with the strategic organization of the police barriers. Schneider: "The suspicions we had on the day itself I had spoken to officials who have scolded furiously on their operational control, because not understand what was happening on the site." This is confirmed by an official of the day at the Love Parade was in use at the stern.de. The whole operation was organized questionable. There have been no truly common operational, only telephone conferences between the police, emergency services and city. What the extensive documentary Lopavent but coyly conceals is its own role in planning the event. Never mind that there were several warnings in advance to organize the Love Parade in the limited freight yard area with limited access routes as well - and that these warnings were obviously not taken seriously by Lopavent. Also there is no word on the use of his own security personnel in the chaos at some supposedly felt for the part "let down" and to "self protection" moved.
The number can lift no security alone A solid planned major event with hundreds of thousands of visitors is different. Whether that was possibly out of control Lopavent management but criminally relevant error, shall the judge. The fact that the WDR now reported was reached in the critical phase in the center position of organizer and police, according to a security firm to a technical fault, makes the Love Parade in resolving the matter any easier. There had been camera images, which were suddenly gone, "says the managing director of the Cologne security company RAD, Robert Ahrlé, the transmitter. The cameras had failed, because inadvertently damaged by ravers in their escape from a tunnel had been. ©stern.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Company: Image failure in the Love Parade Situation Centre
Dusseldorf (dpa) New details on the Love Parade disaster: In the center position of the organizers and the police it is a security company in the critical phase to a technical fault came to be material. "There were camera images that suddenly disappeared," said the managing director of Cologne's security company, RAD, Robert Ahrlé the "WDR" magazine Westpol. According to the report was Ahrlé is unfortunately time to the location center, which was housed in a skyscraper. who played what role the disruptions in the disaster, in which 21 people were killed, went from the report not. On the monitors are different sections disappeared, said Ahrlé. There were specialists who have sought, which could control the cameras. And their message was simple: the cameras are out in these areas. "Only hours later they found out that turned out the cameras, because it accidentally by ravers in their dramatic escape from a tunnel was damaged.
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Will all of his shots from the unlucky surveillance cameras available on the Internet: Rainer Schaller The processing of the disaster in the Interior Committee of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament on 2 September but he will stay away. "Representative of my company will" participate in the meeting, Schaller said "the" mirror. Representatives from the police reacted angrily. This was "outrageous and cowardly," said the chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia, the police union (GdP), Frank Richter, according to the message. The responsibility, it can not circumvent, make video recordings to the Internet. With the release Schaller show only the consequences of his failure as an organizer. The video material includes, according to Schaller, the photographs of seven cameras with a maturity of more than 22 hours. When the images are released, went from the report of the news magazine not clear. Everyone "should get a picture of the processes can make," said Schaller, who had criticized the use of the police earlier sharp. On the fatal day, the police inexplicably blocked three chains have formed, when piled in front of the entrances in the western and eastern part of the event's location from 15.50 clock to the masses: two in the tunnels and one on the lower part of the access ramp. These chains are likely to have been the cause of the disaster. "For us, the question arises as to why the police did this." Without the police line on the ramp, people would still live, claimed Schaller. Representatives from the police showed the Vorschürfe back sharply. The officials have partially tried, risking their lives to prevent the worst effects of the Love Parade, sloppy planning, said the chairman of the German police union, Rainer Wendt. In many television reports had been seen already that the police "were literally overrun, when they had attempted to prevent further inflow into the grounds." The Chief of Police of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dieter said, woe, according to press release of the NRW interior ministry to Schaller: "His statements are not better, only because he repeated. The organizer has asked the police for help because its security had collapsed. He had promised to close the entrance gates. That has not happened. " The police will inform the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament and the public at the meeting of home affairs committee on its findings for their own actions at the Love Parade, "said Woe. "We will set out the facts. The crucial interaction between Lopavent organizers, the city of Duisburg as a licensing authority and the police and security will be. Courts, members of the victims and the public can then "make their assessment, said the inspector. Even more controversial Duisburg Mayor Adolf Sauerland (CDU) had promised to be coming to the Interior Committee. The city council of the SPD, FDP and the Left had asked on Friday for the defeat Sauerland. It will be voted at a special meeting in mid-September among all members, with the exception of Sauerland. Sauerland is regarded by many as the main supporter of the Love Parade disaster of 24 July. The local politicians rejected for weeks at a withdrawal and does not have a personal debt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizer provides videos on the Internet Rainer Schaller, organizers of the Love Parade in Duisburg is, recordings of surveillance cameras on the Internet. They should prove that the police contributes to blame for the disaster. Five weeks after the Love Parade disaster with 21 dead in Duisburg organizers will provide Rainer Schaller, the entire video material of his surveillance cameras on the Internet. Thus, the tactical blunders of the police are documented, Schaller said in an interview with the Mirror : "Everyone should get a picture of the processes themselves can make." The material if it were recorded by seven cameras, with a maturity of more than 22 hours. To see how the police had blocked three chains have formed, as in the afternoon in the western and eastern part of the event site jammed the people. Two chains were formed in the tunnel and one on the lower part of the access ramp. These chains are "probably the cause of the disaster was," said Schaller. Without the cordons would be "the people still live," he added. Schaller is not according to the report before the Committee on Internal Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, which is on 2 September once again with the Duisburg disaster busy answering the questionnaire. He would send representatives of his company. He was also aware that he had a moral responsibility. "I was organizer, and people would not have died if the event would not have been. Who is to blame, must be resolved legally, of course I put myself here too, the responsibility," he said in the interview. 28/08/2010
The police have, as in front of the entrances in the western and the eastern area of the event's location from 15.50 clock the crowds jammed, made inexplicably three cordons, said Schaller, two in the tunnels and one on the lower part of the access ramp. These chains are likely to have been the cause of the disaster. "For us, the question arises as to why the police did this." Without the police line on the ramp, people would still live, said Schaller. He is not according to the report before the Committee on Internal Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, which is on 2 September once again with the Duisburg disaster busy answering the questionnaire. He would send representatives of his company.
He was aware that he has a moral responsibility. "I was organizer, and people would not have died if the event would not have been. Who's to blame, must be resolved legally, of course I put myself here too, the responsibility, "he said in the interview. Deselecting Sauerland asked Meanwhile, the city council of the SPD, FDP and left on Friday for the defeat of Mayor Adolf Sauerland (CDU) sought. It divided the city council with in Duisburg. The city of Duisburg confirmed the receipt of the request. The 38 council members of the three parties had previously signed the voting out application. About this would be voted at a special meeting in mid-September among all members with the exception of Sauerland. The Council has 75 members. At the meeting must agree to two thirds of the members voting out the application. Accepted the mayor the result, he is voted out. he does not accept that choose citizens. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glass cube but not in the inner harbor The glass cube, in which it collected in Duisburg for the Love Parade Trauergaben victims, should now be well positioned but right at the disaster site. The planned site in the inner harbor had been widely criticized. The Duisburg "Citizens Memorial Circle" has decided the way forward for the planned memorials for the victims of the disaster at the Love Parade. Thus, the cube with the collected Trauergaben is now expected to be set up well but at the accident on the ramp before the tunnel at the Karl-Lehr-street. Of which is at this stage must be considered as the club Duisburg Future District announced on Tuesday. Originally a site in Duisburg's inner harbor was planned. This proposal was met with widespread criticism. From the 4th September, the end of the official mourning period for the Love Parade victims as well as the closure of the tunnel is, the cube will be placed at the accident. In addition, there is a simple memorial plaque be installed. Within one year, the citizens' initiative will also pass a stele in the city of Duisburg to design the artist. Therefore, according to information of the association used the money on donations to the funeral march 1st August end, were collected. Also for a memorial in Duisburg is advised by the citizens' initiative further. One idea is that the four books of condolences in the tunnel resulting in the foundation of the still to be planned to place memorial, the club. Temporarily, the books are but together with the book of condolences from the Duisburg City Hall on Thursday passed to the City Archives for safekeeping. The "Citizens Memorial Circle is an association of numerous private initiatives, associations and city representatives, the ways to commemorate the 21 fatalities of the Duisburg Love Parade, 24 July looking for. It currently meets weekly. © Derwen 08/17/2010, (eng / Reuters) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suggestions and proposals of citizens In recent days, concerns pile up against the proposal to establish the glass cube in the inner harbor. "The place between the garden of remembrance and the Culture and Museum of City, we chose a particular point in the city," said Cultural Affairs Karl Janssen, with Gabriela Grillo is the speaker of "Citizens Memorial Circle. "I take these concerns nevertheless very seriously and will ensure that a subject of discussion at the next meeting." The concerns and suggestions that have been expressed in the context of the discussion about continuing the work of mourning for the victims of the Love Parade will be recovered from the members of the circle and discussed included as well as the concept for a memorial, has spoken out for the "Citizens Memorial Circle. The glass cube is not a substitute for such a memorial, said Karl Janssen. It is a step and a place to preserve the Trauergaben worthy. The Citizen Circle, composed of representatives of civic associations Community Foundation Duisburg, ProDUISBURG, City Sports Association and the Association Hochfeld "future district, the artistry, the Integration Council and the City Council members, meets weekly at the time. The aim is to find ways to include the commemoration to proceed to the victims. So far, the participants of the "Citizens Memorial Circle", the following steps 13/08/2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trauergaben be kept in a glass cube to six weeks after the accident on 4 September 2010 be placed in the memorial site in the Karl-Lehr-tunnel a plaque with the words "Duisburg commemorates the victims of the Love Parade. Citizens are invited this Saturday, the Trauergaben, candles and memories of the morning paper to collect up to 14 clock in a glass cube, to keep them still. This process to end the six-week period of mourning, the "Citizens Memorial Circle on Monday, 9 August 2010, agreed at its second session. The glass cube is then brought to the inner harbor, where it is situated between the Cultural and Museum of City and the Garden of Remembrance. Following this ceremony is the Karl-Lehr-tunnel reopened to traffic. No later than the anniversary of the disaster to an artist Duisburg Stele to the victims of the 24th July 2010 design. The Initiative donations Funeral March "will announce a corresponding competition and contribute to the realization of the art care. All participants will be the "Citizen Circle Memory" are agreed that the goal to build a memorial to the victims pursued. All suggestions, even on the place of the memorial, to be included in the discussion process. 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 Sauerland has been called a 'rat' by Duisburg residents |
A week after the death of 21 people at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg, the mayor of the western German city, Adolf Sauerland, is preparing to face a city council vote which could force him to resign.
Adolf Sauerland is ready to face a vote in the city council on his future as mayor of Duisburg, the western German city where 21 people died after being crushed to death at the Love Parade music festival on July 24.
Sauerland, who has been under pressure to resign over the city's organization of the event, said in a statement Monday that he "will face up to his responsibilities - both personal and political."
No-confidence vote
Several parties as well as the people of Duisburg have been calling for his resignation. The process of voting him out is complex, but he would be most likely to have to step down once two thirds of the city councilors vote for him to go.
Sauerland could face a no-confidence vote
"Of course, and I've said this before, I'm prepared to face being voted out according to the regulations of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia," Sauerland said in the statement.
Sauerland has not appeared in public since shortly after the disaster, and has communicated only in writing and through interviews with selected newspapers.
But if Sauerland, who is from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party, gets enough support from his fellow party members, he could stave off the vote of no-confidence.
Looking for answers
In the meantime, Sauerland has launched an inquiry into the handling of the Love Parade festival, in which 21 people where killed on July 24, and over 500 injured. On Monday, five people were still being treated in hospital. The dead were crushed as they were led into an overcrowded access tunnel to the techno music festival.
Around 1,000 Duisburg residents have signed a petition demanding Sauerland's resignation. The Left party and the Social Democratic groups in the Duisburg city council have also called for him to step down. German President Christian Wulff said he should accept political responsibility, and pointed out that this did not mean he would be admitting personal guilt over the deaths.
An interim police report last Wednesday put the blame on organizers, listing a catalog of catastrophic mistakes in managing a crowd of hundreds of thousands on a site that was not suitable for that many people. Prosecutors have opened an investigation.
Author: Nicole Goebel (dpa/Reuters)
Editor: Michael Lawton
Protest calls for Duisburg mayor to resign over Love Parade deaths
Germany is looking for someone to take the blame in the tragic crushing deaths of 21 Love Parade festival-goers. A preliminary investigation said event organizers and the city of Duisburg should accept responsibilty.
Hannelore Kraft, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, has called on the lord mayor of the western German city of Duisburg to accept moral responsibility for the deaths of 21 people at a stampede at the Love Parade techno festival on Saturday.
In a statement in Thursday's edition of the regional paper Rheinische Post, Kraft said Adolf Sauerland "and those responsible in the city government will ultimately have to take political responsibility."
Kraft's statements have been interpreted by German media as an indirect call for Sauerland's resignation. Meanwhile, a group of 150 young protesters gathered in Duisburg Thursday morning, demanding that Sauerland step down.
Preliminary report finds city and organizers to blame
Criticism against Sauerland has increased in the last 24 hours, after a preliminary investigative report stated Wednesday that organizers of the Love Parade failed to adhere to their own safety concept and that the city government, which approved their event permit, had been unorganized.
Ralf Jaeger, an interior minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, presented the report, saying he found it "outrageous" that the city and the event's organizers had attempted to deny their responsibility for the tragedy, as it took place within the festival grounds.
He said the continuing police investigation would be focused on finding out why organizers did not implement their own crowd control plans and why the city had approved the Love Parade's event permit.
"The organizer of the event is solely responsible for the event location," said Jaeger, adding, "My impression is that, as the crowd control system fell apart, the police took over the role of the organizer in working to protect visitors from being crushed."
"The police attempted to do what the organizers were supposed to do," said Jaeger, adding that a combined police force of 5,300 was present, but organizers were responsible for controling the flow of traffic.
Sauerland is accused of shirking
moral responsibility
Unmanned entrance gates caused traffic jam of 20,000
Jaeger also spoke of poor organization on the part of city authorities, who approved the event. He said that the city had only sent its approval of the Love Parade security concept to police on the morning of the event.
In the weeks before the festival, police had expressed to organizers their concern about the use of the tunnel as the sole entrance and exit, North Rhine-Westphalia police inspector Dieter Wehe said Wednesday.
According to the inspector's chronology of the events, organizers opened the festival grounds shortly after noon, over an hour later than planned. This led to huge queues as visitors tried to get in.
The organizers' plan for crowd control detailed 24 access gates around the perimeter of the Love Parade festival grounds. Eight of these gates were found by police to be unmanned and left open when police were asked to disperse a growing crowd on a ramp leading to the festival ground. This meant thousands more people were able to pour in.
"There was a clear agreement between the organizers and the police to close all points of entry at the same time as the operation designed to disperse the crowd began," said Wehe. "This would prevent more people reaching the crowded ramp."
Organizers lost control; asked police to step in
Jaeger wants to know why the event organizer (in picture on right side) didn't follow his own plans!
Festival organizers asked police at 3:30 p.m. to step in and conduct crowd control due to the mass build-up of people at the tunnel entrance.
We he explained that police "have a philosophy of holding back at peaceful festivals" and that they had not stepped in earlier, as the task of controling the flow of visitors was the organizers' reponsibility.
At 3:46 p.m., organizers ordered crowd-control staff to close the access gates and prevent more festival-goers from entering the tunnel. This order was never implemented, according to Wehe. Additional festival-goers then entered the scene through gaps in the fences created to allow in ambulances.
Jaeger cited an eyewitness report that stated that the police had formed a line in order to keep new visitors from entering the tunnel, but that the people had pushed their way through, forcing the officers to give up their efforts.
Suffocated in the crush
At 5:02 p.m. the crowd broke through the police fence in front of the ramp over the entranceway, and several of the festival-goers climbed to the top of the ramp, flashing the "victory" sign to those below. The 14 victims who died on the scene were suffocated when a mass of people charged the ramp stairs.
Without the successful work of paramedics, Jaeger said, the magnitude of the tragedy would have been much greater.
Memorial services
The first memorial ceremony took place Wednesday in the city Muenster for three female students, two of them Spanish exchange students, who were killed in the crush.
The official memorial for the victims of the tragedy is to take place next Saturday in Duisburg. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff are both expected to attend. However, the mayor of Duisburg Adolf Sauerland, who has faced several calls to resign over his handling of the event, will not be present. Sauerland said he wanted to avoid upsetting the family and friends of the victims with his presence.
Author: David Levitz (dpa/KNA/AFP/Reuters)
Editor: Martin Kuebler
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The businessman behind the ill-fated Love Parade
Schaller (right) faces some hard questions
The organizer of the ill-fated Love Parade, German fitness czar Rainer Schaller, has a reputation for swimming against the current and making risks pay off. Now the entrepreneur has become the obejct of public scrutiny.
After a mass panic killed 19 people at the Love Parade techno music festival in Duisburg on Saturday, one of Germany's less conventional entrepreneurs has found himself in the public spotlight. Rainer Schaller, who took over Love Parade in 2006, owns a successful chain of fitness studios.
McFit, as Schaller's chain is called, boasts prices as low as 16,90 euros per month. It has 118 throughout Germany, some 900,000 members, and a turnover of 134 million euros. Love Parade was intended to serve as a marketing tool for the company, which plans to expand across Europe.
41-year-old Schaller's success can in part be explained by his willingness to take risks.
According to the Handelsblatt daily newspaper, Schaller's first fitness studio was an illegal operation which he kept amongst friends and operated in an attic above his parents' supermarket outside of Nuremberg. He comes from a family of grocers who taught him the "mathematics and accounting" of running a business.
Self-made entrepreneur
When Schaller opened the first McFit in Wurzburg in 1997, he did every job in the new business himself, from cleaning to training and administration tasks. He advertised the new McFit studio as being "now also in Wurzburg," giving the impression that it was part of a large, successful chain.
Unlike most fitness chains in Germany, McFit's strategy is to offer a barebones gym with limited classes and training staff and no extra amenities such as saunas. Customers have around-the-clock access to the machines, but showers cost 50 cents extra.
The concept proved popular, and Schaller opened his second studio in 1998.
In 2008, the chain recruited Ukrainian celebrity boxers Vladimir und Vitali Klitschko to represent it, and in 2009 it opened its first studios in Austria and Spain.
In 2009, he told the Handelsblatt newspaper that McFit's interest in Love Parade was to "use a relatively small budget to gain a high recognition factor. We spent a lot of time thinking about what kind of crazy thing we could do to make ourselves more well-known. We chose Love Parade."
Condolences expressed
Schaller expressed his condolences at a press conference Sunday, reading from a text and visibly upset.
McFit was the main sponsor of the ill-fated Love Parade
"The Love Parade was always a peaceful and joyous party that will now forever be overshadowed by yesterday's tragic events. Out of respect for the victims, families and friends, we will discontinue the event. The Love Parade is no more. Words are not enough to describe the extent of the shock I feel," he said.
Love Parade was founded in 1989 by Berlin DJ Matthias Roeingh, also known as Dr Motte. In some years it drew more than a million visitors, but planning and financing issues caused it to be cancelled in 2004 and 2005.
The event was revived and relocated to the Ruhr region in 2006 by Lopavent, a Schaller-owned company. McFit has sponsored it with 3 million euros per year ever since.
Author: Gerhard Schneibel (dpa)
Editor: Sam Edmonds
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1 Western security port
2 Eastern security port
3 main entry (two tunnel of 20 m width, a ramp of 50 m width)
4 VIP entry / northern escape way
5 southern escape way / medical service
6 Bethesda Hospitaller clinical center
7 VIP entry / medical service
8 central medical service
9 emergency heliport
10 medical service
11 emergency heliport
12 Duisburg central station
13 central bus station / underground station
14 „Sideshow“
15 „Sideshow“
Fatalities:
A total of 21 people died, 13 women and eight men, aged between 18 and 38 years. 14 were reported to be Germans. Among the seven casualties of other nationalities were two Spanish women aged 21 and 22 years, a 38 year old Chinese woman living in Germany, a 22 year old man from the Netherlands, a 21 year old woman from Italy, one person from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a 27 year old woman from Australia. 15 died at the site, six died in hospital.
| Nationality | Fatalities | Age | ||
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 Germany |
14 | 18–38 | 7 or 8 | 6 or 7 |
 Spain |
2 | 21–22 | 2 | — |
 Netherlands |
1 | 22 | — | 1 |
 Australia |
1 | 27 | 1 | — |
 People's Republic of China |
1 | 38 | 1 | — |
 Italy |
1 | 21 | 1 | — |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1 | |||
| Total | 21 | 18–38 | 13 | 8 |
Aftermath
Police chose not to close down the event, fearing that doing so could spark another panic. Nearby motorway A59, which was closed during the whole Love Parade, was functioned as an access route for emergency services.
During a press conference on 25 July, organiser Rainer Schaller stated that there would never again be another Love Parade, out of respect for those who lost their lives. "The Love Parade has always been a joyful and peaceful party, but in future would always be overshadowed by yesterday's events" he stated.
The German police and State's Attorney (Staatsanwaltschaft) have opened an official criminal investigation.[18] The Duisburg prosecutors office is investigating negligent homicide, but they have not named who their investigation targets are.
Rainer Schaller (born 4 January 1969) is the president and chief executive officer of McFit GmbH, Lopavent GmbH, which is the organizing company of the Love Parade an electronic dance music festival and parade, Loveparade Berlin GmbH and LoveParade.net GmbH.
On 24 July 2010, at least 21 people were killed, with at least 511 others injured, near a stampede in a tunnel at the 2010 Love Parade - "The Art of Love" in Duisburg, Germany, which was organized by him. The number of people attending reached about between 200,000 and 1.4 million, when the original expectation was around 800,000. As a consequence of this, he announced that no further Love Parades would be held.
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