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Mass panic at the Love Parade in Duisburg: On Sunday, the accident marks the twelfth time
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Twelve years after the Loveparade disaster in Duisburg, those affected continue to receive financial support from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
From a second aid fund of five million euros set up at the end of 2020, more than 4.3 million euros had been paid out to the bereaved and injured by March 31, 2022, the Düsseldorf State Chancellery announced.
Sunday marks the twelfth anniversary of the accident.
"Twelve years ago, North Rhine-Westphalia was shaken by an accident that still causes horror and sadness today - 21 people lost their lives at the Love Parade in Duisburg," said Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) according to the message.
"Don't leave those affected alone"
The aid fund is an important signal that the mental suffering and the pain of the relatives and the injured will not be forgotten.
»It is therefore a good and important sign that the second relief fund is also being very well received.
I strongly encourage all beneficiaries who have not previously applied for assistance to do so.
We stand by those affected and do not leave them alone,” said Wüst.
Beneficiaries can submit an application for financial aid to the Unfallkasse NRW in an unbureaucratic process up until December 31, 2023.
Then the application period ends.
According to the information, payments were made from the second relief fund in 19 deaths to survivors and 615 injured.
At the Love Parade in Duisburg on July 24, 2010, a mass panic broke out on the site of a former freight yard.
21 people lost their lives and several hundred were injured.
In May 2020, the year-long legal battle to find the culprit was stopped.
One of the most costly criminal trials of the post-war period ended without a verdict.
Most recently, three senior employees of the organizer Lopavent had been in the dock.
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