New criminal trial begins for Love Parade 10
Employees of promoter Lopavent and the city of Duisburg will once again take to the dock for one of the biggest criminal trials in German history
News By IQ | 8 December 2017
Following outcry over the failure of a previous lawsuit, ten of the organisers of the tragic 2010 Love Parade festival today once again went on trial in Germany.
The ten defendants – four employees of the festival’s promoter, Lopavent, and six of the city of Duisburg, in North Rhine-Westphalia – were cleared of any wrongdoing in an April 2016 decision by Duisburg state court, which found there was “no sufficient case to answer” – a ruling described as a “judicial scandal” by relatives…
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