Love hurts

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Agreed. I'm surprised that the German government doesn't already have regulations prohibiting this. Yeah the organizers are at fault but who approved their permits?

The "Stadtrat" (=city council, I think). the police later failed when warning were coming in, but they ignored them, saying that they (the police) are not responsible, but that the organisers are.

The state attorney has started investigations over charges of "fahrlässige Tötung" (=murder by negligence, I think).

The state government of Northrhine Westphalia maybe also has a share in this. The Ruhrgebiet, once the heart of the German coal mining industry, has declared 2010 a year to show that the region has successfully transformed from being a mining complex into a region of tourism and - fanfares! - culture economy, of which the love parade I suppose was meant to be a prominent example in a number of public events that are meant to "celebrate" this new Ruhrgebiet culture throughout 2010. In fact, the love parade in Duisburg is claimed to be just a massive sponsoring event for McFit by the original founder of the love poarade ocncept, "Dr. Motte".

Yeah, drugs, alcohol and techno. Brave new "culture". Bach, Rilke and Friedrich must turn in their graves when being minimised by calling this modern stuff "Kultur". Today, lining up six men on the stage, all naked, already qualifies for being called a new "culture of theatre", for the simple fact that they are naked. In ten years I will be called a great artist and an icon of modern culture for just having the face that I have.

It has been declared during a press conference, that there will be no more love parades. Duisburg was the last one, after it already had been abandoned by the orginal host, Berlin, where it took place for many years. The original inventor and founder of the love parade has withdrawn and left it behind already four years go, in anger.