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Memorial service held for Love Parade victims
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 2 August 2010
A memorial service was held in Duisberg on Saturday, the city where 21 people were killed at the previous weekend’s Love Parade festival.
As previously reported, the founder of Love Parade announced last week that he is bringing the German techno festival to an end after 21 people were killed and hundreds more injured in a stampede at this year’s event. Tragedy struck at the legendary free dance music fest when a crowd surge occurred in a tunnel acting as the only public entry point to the festival site for the estimated 1.4 million attendees. Originally put at fifteen, the death toll has continued to rise throughout last week as more succumbed to their injuries.
At the service, held at the city’s Salvator Church and also broadcast on a screen in a football stadium and at various other churches, the governor of the North Rhine-Westphalia region, Hannelore Kraft, said: “There are many thousands who survived but whose souls were injured. They are suffering in silence”.
A criminal investigation into the circumstances that led to the stampede is ongoing.
