Growing pressure on authorities to weaknesses Loveparade security.
(Updated the number of deaths after last death) Berlin, July 26 .- Two days after the tragedy of the "Love Parade", and while the families of foreign victims, including two young Spaniards of the deceased, are already in Germany to repatriate the remains, there is growing pressure on the council, the police and the organizers for weaknesses in the safety of the party.
In Duisburg, the city in, Star Trek Gold, which the tragedy occurred on Saturday, several revelations placed in an uncomfortable situation at City Hall, police and organizers, criticized the German media to authorize the event, which killed a total of 20 participants, eight of them foreigners.
The last died this Monday was a German girl who was in very serious condition.
A day after, champions online resources, learning that the fire had already warned unsafe months ahead of the location of the "Love Parade", a report of editing "online" the weekly "Spiegel" highlighted several security protocols were not observed.
According to this method, the organizers of the "Loveparade" did not observe the expected minimum width for access and emergency exit. He also, tibia gold, stressed that he had been clear in the preliminary report at that site concentrations could only be authorized up to 250,000 people.
However, Duisburg authorize the party in that place to save security costs, and to find a site more involved increasing police contingent, as I point out that half the police union president, Rainer Wendt.
One of the big unknowns is still the number of participants, and while the first figures released by the organizers spoke of 1.4 million people, security officials spoke of a maximum of 300,000.
On Sunday, as was learned today, the mayor of Duisburg, Adolf Sauerland, who dnded the weekend, the security plan "Loveparade" suffered assaults and insults as they approached the scene of the tragedy.
Amid this tension, from the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, and while the Christian Democratic parties (CDU and CSU) have requested an independent investigation, were encouraged not to draw hasty conclusions from the events in Duisburg until we have full information and analysis of occurred.
Meanwhile, parents of the Spanish victims, Clara Zapater and Marta Acosta, arrived in Germany on Sunday night, according to Agencia confirm the consul of Spain in Duesseldorf, Manuel Viturro.
"Priority now are families, not the press," the diplomat warned after explaining that families demand the highest respect for your privacy and will not officially offer more data.
Viturro pointed out that the German authorities did not provide lists of casualties by wish of many of them, "they did not want anyone to know they were in the Loveparade.
Just today, the police in Duisburg modify the balance of injuries on Saturday, bringing to 511 people, compared to 342, as reported on Sunday ", of which 283 were hospitalized.
One of the injured is still hovering between life and death, these sources said, while 43 people remain hospitalized.
Some citizensSpaniards present in most electronic music festival in the world told that those who were inside the compound, located in the former goods station of Duisburg, were unaware of the tragedy until hours later.
Alberto Garcia, who lives in Groningen (Netherlands) has to get to the site with four friends on the 1745, just half an hour after the disaster. Next to the tunnel "had people sitting on the floor and some crying along with some ambulances, but all the way clear."
The Spanish and his friends moved on and agreed to the site "without a minute's tail." "When we did not know what had happened and we thought the police and ambulances were there because there would be some wounded, fainting or alcohol problems, as usual this holiday season," explained Garcia.
When I had a couple of hours dancing, they encountered another group of Spaniards who were told that they had heard rumors that the entry had been an avalanche and had killed several people. "
Another Spanish, Basque Miguel Lopategui, pointed out that really did not realize that something serious had happened when they get a message to the mobile "wondering whether we were right, past twelve o'clock at night."
Also today it was learned that the University of Muenster, where he had just finished two semesters of Spanish deceased, a funeral mass held soon in car-gc-xm/ih memoria.