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This videos purpose is to show the chronology of the Loveparade 2010 catastrophy with many dead people
In this panic there was a young lady asking me for help and I held her hand for about 15 min...
...while i could not even see her body or face. I encouraged her to continue fighting and not to give up
If you recognize yourself here please contact me. After the panic you just ran away
I just want to know if you survived or if you suffer from any injury. Please contact me
This video shall help to find answers of how this catastrophy could happen at all
From Duisburg Main Station there was a specific path on where the people had to walk.
This scene shows the crossing from Grabenstraße to Karl-Lehr-Straße at 15:38
As i walked into this crowd and out of it again 2 minutes later i already recognized that it was more difficult to come back...
...to the free area where i came from before because there were coming up people from behind constanly
Then i asked a policeman how the organizer imagines to handle the crowds and where the actual...
...Loveparade area was. He could not say very much. He seemed to be uninformed.
16:07 Karl-Lehr-Straße. After waiting for some time we were coming up to the official Loveparade Entrance
Maybe the people were annoyed but everything was fine
That was my first Loveparade with fences and barricades
I did not experience fences in Berlin or Dortmund. I have not been to Essen.
The crowd compression got more intensive but it was still allright although it was uncomfortable
Mind my remark: "I can stand slanting (without falling)"
My Hand! ***!
"What a bad organisation here - incredible!"
"What is this meant to be here? Loveparade or jail?"
Here were the passages where i still do not have any idea about their purpose
Firstly i thout they wanted to control people here but actually they didnt. Not me but maybe others.
After this inconveniences i was really pleased to enter the Loveparade at last...
...and that everything would come to an happy end...
...although i was not happy
What a crap! What a *** organisation! A locking up of people. A locking up for 1 million people
And then they want to build passages where they want to control people or something...
...for 1 Million pepole! How sick is that??
16:15 in the first long Tunnel, which is seperated into more Tunnels through some free areas.
The atmosphere was great
The duration to walk all the Tunnel is about 5 to 8 Min.
My résumé after the catastrophy which started up soon:
I was lucky that i did not get a torn ligament in my right foot
In that case i would probably not had been able to defend myself effectly any more
My knee was twisted a bit, sometimes I still have a bit pain there
1 woman i could help through keeping her hand and encouragement
1 woman and 1 man which I tried to reanimate together with a policeman. Unfortunately successless
I had the impression that they were dead already before I started
16:22 Out of the long Tunnel there was one more little Tunnel which was barricaded at his end
If you look to your right now you have THIS sight
This way (Rampe) should obviosly lead to the Loveparade
The building in the background should be the old main station
In this situation I thought that the way up there was also barricaded, but i do not know if that was true or not.
The very question now: Which way to go?
Straight ahead barricaded, Up to the right barricaded. I decided to go up right.
On the left side there is a stair (not visible in this picture)
On the right side there were scaffoldings which hold floodlights at their top
On the left the stair, on the right the scaffoldings
additional an indicator building in the back which was also climbable
For the next 60 Min. these things were the only chances to escape...
...for the people which were here while there were probably more people arriving...
...from the Tunnel from which i had just arrived here.
My question is now: Was there at 16:22 the chance to open the barricades for the people?
It is visible that also in the background are many people
So I cannot answer this question
For what my report is probably good for is to give a contribution...
...to solve the question why there was panic and why people were killed...
...in the long Tunnel and also here in this area