Editing Love Parade (section)

==2010 disaster==
{{Main|Love Parade disaster}}
At the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg, the number of people attending allegedly reached 1.4 million – the original expectation was around 800,000 – whereas police believed around 400,000 people were present.<ref>{{cite news|title=No Resignations, Just Unanswered Questions|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,708676,00.html|work=Spiegel Online|date=27 July 2010|access-date=28 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727223908/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,708676,00.html |archive-date=27 July 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> 21 people were killed, and more than 600 injured,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-05-04 |title=Love Parade disaster: German court ends trial over 2010 stampede deaths |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52527515 |access-date=2022-07-19}}</ref> in an incident on an overcrowded ramp leading from a tunnel into the festival. All of the victims were crushed to death, according to officials.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Diehl |first1=Jörg |last2=Gathmann |first2=Florian |last3=Hans |first3=Barbara |last4=Jüttner |first4=Julia |date=2010-07-28 |title=Analysis of the Love Parade Tragedy: The Facts Behind the Duisburg Disaster |language=en |work=Der Spiegel |url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/analysis-of-the-love-parade-tragedy-the-facts-behind-the-duisburg-disaster-a-708876.html |access-date=2022-07-19 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>

Safety experts and a fire service investigator had previously warned that the site was not suitable for the numbers expected to attend.<ref name="guardian">Connolly, Kate (25 July 2010).  [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/germany "Prosecutors Investigate 'Ignored' Safety Warnings after 21 Die in Love Parade Crush&nbsp;— Organisers Allowed Just One Entrance to Music Festival Grounds for Expected Crowd of 1.4 Million, Witnesses Say"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308030453/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/germany |date=8 March 2016 }}.  ''[[The Guardian]]''. Retrieved 27 July 2010.</ref> [[Rainer Schaller]], the festival's organizer and chief executive officer, later said the festival would not continue in future.

A preliminary investigation of the ministry of the interior placed heavy blame on the organizers around Rainer Schaller. Schaller in turn claimed that errors by the police in controlling streams of visitors led to the accident.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/nachrichten/deutschland-und-welt_artikel,-Jetzt-21-Tote-durch-Loveparade-Katastrophe-_arid,117302.html |title=Jetzt 21 Tote durch Loveparade-Katastrophe&nbsp;– Deutschland & Welt&nbsp;– Rhein-Zeitung |publisher=Rhein-zeitung.de |access-date=28 July 2010 }}{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722044018/http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/nachrichten/deutschland-und-welt_artikel,-Schwere-Vorwuerfe-gegen-Loveparade-Macher-_arid,117302.html |archive-date=22 July 2012}}</ref>