“Germany is looking for someone to take the blame”

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“Pressure grows on Duisburg mayor to resign over Love Parade deaths”

Germany is looking for someone to take the blame

Disasters | 29.07.2010 — Germany is looking for someone to take the blame in the tragic crushing deaths of 21 Love Parade festival-goers. A preliminary investigation said event organizers and the city of Duisburg should accept responsibilty.

Hannelore Kraft, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, has called on the lord mayor of the western German city of Duisburg to accept moral responsibility for the deaths of 21 people at a stampede at the Love Parade techno festival on Saturday.

In a statement in Thursday’s edition of the regional paper Rheinische Post, Kraft said Adolf Sauerland “and those responsible in the city government will ultimately have to take political responsibility.”

Kraft’s statements have been interpreted by German media as an indirect call for Sauerland’s resignation. Meanwhile, a group of 150 young protesters gathered in Duisburg Thursday morning, demanding that Sauerland step down. Full Article