Throughout the nineties and noughties the electro music fest Love Parade epitomized the ramshackle, liberated lifestyle that originated in Berlin and swept across Germany. But a disaster on July 24th 2010 put an end to this ideal in the most traumatic of circumstances.
After the bodies of a woman and her three kids were found in their apartment, Bavarian prosecutors announced on Wednesday that an arrest warrant on four counts of murder had been issued for the family’s father.
A German court on Tuesday threw out criminal charges stemming from a catastrophic stampede at a Love Parade techno street party in 2010 that killed 21 people and injured hundreds.
July 2015 marked five years since one of the worst tragedies in modern German history. But this week, those affected by the 2010 Duisburg Love Parade disaster will at last see the case come to court.
Four defendants were to appear in court in Hungary on Saturday over Austria's migrant truck tragedy, as a "horrified and heartbroken" UN chief called for international action to end Europe's refugee crisis.
A court in Kassel sentenced a man to three years in jail on Monday after his children died in the bath while he was checking train times at the station.