Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer View Post

Unfortunately people will always die at festivals and events
they are impossible things to make safe, it is their nature.
Most of the time they only work because the people themselves are being careful and thoughtful
not because the organizers have done anything special to make them so.

Ok, impossible to make 100% safe, but having a venue where there is only basically one entrance for 1.5 million people just shows planning on an idiotic level- Everyone I spoke to in Germany who is involved with events had a fair idea something like this was going to happen, as saddened as they were by the turn of events, they were not surprised..

The organisers (who I should add, are Mc Fit, a german gym chain, NOT Dr Motte, the originator of the love parade) were apparently putting a lot of pressure on the city authorities to stage the event despite concerns for the safety of the venue..