19 People Dead at German Love Festival

bob. · 07-25-2010, 07:40 PM

Officials explain little on German festival stampede

this absolutely crazy....how the hell could the promoters of this actually within sane mind make it to where they planed on packing over one million people into a small space with only one exit/entrance...and thats an access tunnel

CanwllCorfe · 07-26-2010, 08:09 PM

Love Parade is the name of the festival. I saw a video where they were helping people up and saw them carrying the dead and trying to resuscitate some of the people who were still alive. Such a horrible accident

R.I.P.

Freebase Dali · 07-26-2010, 08:11 PM

What were they stampeding for?

CanwllCorfe · 07-26-2010, 08:28 PM

I still haven't been able to find out.

EDIT: I just found this:

Quote:

It remains unclear what triggered the panic, but it appears that people trying to escape the surging crowd climbed up a metal stairway in front of the tunnel and then fell and were trampled or crushed.

Freebase Dali · 07-26-2010, 08:44 PM

19 people climbed up a stairway and they all couldn't navigate it? This is getting weirder.

I can understand surging, crazy Germans, as they really like their techno and I've personally seen how packed and crazy it gets at their raves. (Timewarp 2005, Mannheim Germany)
But what the hell?

CanwllCorfe · 07-26-2010, 08:53 PM

19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died

EDIT: It's up to 20 with 511 injured

Freebase Dali · 07-26-2010, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died

Did the stairway collapse or something?
Seems even easier not to fall if you've got over a million people in a narrow stairway...

**Janszoon** · 07-26-2010, 08:55 PM

That's really fucked up.

CanwllCorfe · 07-26-2010, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Did the stairway collapse or something?
Seems even easier not to fall if you've got over a million people in a narrow stairway...

No they fell from it. I haven't seen what the staircase looks like so I'm not exactly sure how they fell or if the injuries were sustained from perhaps getting crushed by people after they fell. I know 2 deaths happened in the entrance/exit tunnel as they were crushed against the wall.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-26-2010, 09:54 PM

What happened was the festival was overcrowded and the only exit/entrance was through a railway tunnel.

As people were being turned away from the festival more people tried to get in causing a huge crush at the gates.

The only way to avoid being crushed was to climb up a high wall or climb up these steep stairs.
Because of the sheer number of people trying to get up these stairs some people fell off.

I didn't see the stairs on the news report but the walls surrounding this tunnel looked at least 20/30 feet high.

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CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	19 people.. in a crowd over a million all climbing up a narrow stairway. It's hard to think that only 19 people died EDIT: It's up to 20 with 511 injured __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	What happened was the festival was overcrowded and the only exit/entrance was through a railway tunnel. As people were being turned away from the festival more people tried to get in causing a huge crush at the gates. The only way to avoid being crushed was to climb up a high wall or climb up these steep stairs. Because of the sheer number of people trying to get up these stairs some people fell off. I didn't see the stairs on the news report but the walls surrounding this tunnel looked at least 20/30 feet high. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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Freebase Dali Partying on the inside Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,584	19 people climbed up a stairway and they all couldn't navigate it? This is getting weirder. I can understand surging, crazy Germans, as they really like their techno and I've personally seen how packed and crazy it gets at their raves. (Timewarp 2005, Mannheim Germany) But what the hell?