Love Parade

The 2010 iteration of popular German dance music festival Love Parade took place in Duisburg, boasting a lineup that featured Tiësto, David Guetta, Boys Noize, Fedde Le Grande, ATB, and many more. That year, investigators estimated that approximately 500,000 people attended the fest despite the location’s capacity, which was only 250,000. Even though the capacity was over double its limit, large crowds were funneled through one single underpass, which quickly became inundated with anxious festival-goers. This induced a panic, which led to an ensuing stampede, which killed a total of 21 people aged between 18 and 38 years. At the time, an eyewitness trapped in the tunnel recalled seeing “…all these twisted-up bodies of those who had been crushed.”...