Police mentioned round 5,000 folks turned up for the start of the parade in cool, wet climate, however the crowd was growing, German information company dpa reported.
One of many organizers, a DJ recognized professionally as Dr. Motte, known as for an unconditional fundamental revenue for artists and for Berlin’s membership tradition to be listed as intangible heritage by UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural company.
Dr. Motte, now 62, is finest recognized for founding the Love Parade — which grew from a small procession of 150 ravers in 1989 to an enormous music competition and road get together with some 1.5 million members a decade later. The occasion’s recognition later waned; it was final held in Berlin in 2006.
Events with the Love Parade model had been held below completely different organizers after that in Germany’s industrial Ruhr area, however ended after a mass panic on the 2010 occasion in Duisburg that resulted in 21 deaths.
