The tragic news is well known – 19 people have been trampled to death at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg, as festival goers were forced through a narrow tunnel as the only entrance to the event.

Angela Merkel has promised an intensive probe into the causes and until the results of that nobody should comment on the rights and wrongs.

Rainer Scheller, organiser of the event, has taken the quick decision to put an end to the festival for good – “Out of respect for the victims, their families and friends, we are going to discontinue the event in the future, and that means the end of the Love Parade.”




Hopefully out of this will come better safety precautions around crowd control, similar to those at football matches (which we’re similarly brought in after such tragedy).

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