Panic At Love Parade, Duisburg, Germany

Until 1996, the parade was held on the Berlin Kurfürstendamm. Since by then, not only the Kurfürstendamm was overcrowded but the nearby streets and even railway tracks, the parade moved to the Straße des 17. Juni in the Tiergarten park in the center of Berlin, where there was more space. The center of the parade was the Siegessäule in the middle of the park, and the golden angel on top of the column has become a symbol of the parade.
Rainer Schaller, president and chief executive officer of McFit and the Love Parade organizing company Lopavent
Many people from Germany and abroad travelled to Berlin to take part in the Parade—over a million attended in the years 1997 through 2000 and 800,000 in 2001. Attendance at the 2001 festival was significantly lower because the date of the parade was changed with little advance notice. 2002 and 2003 also saw lower figures, and in 2004 and 2005 the parade was canceled due to funding difficulties. 2004 did however host a scaled-down version which served more as a mini-protest, and was promoted with the title 'Love Weekend'. Dozens of clubs promoted the weekend-long event all over the city, with various clubs staying open for 3 days straight without closing. In 2006, the parade made a comeback with the help of German exercise studio McFit.