Yeah. And, the more I read on it, the more I think that there were multiple factors, each of which could have prevented the disaster.

• Approval of a site with limited capacity: now we learn that the site was approved for a mere 250,000 people! Yet, the event was announced for 500,000, and the real number of people that came is still unclear.

• Approval of escape routes: now we also learn that in the same approval, the organisers were released from the obligation regarding the width of escape routes.

• The staircase at the epicentre of panic: according to further eyewitness reports, the staircase was opened by police, and that act already worsened the situation, because everyone tried to move that way. Now a single staircase, that's a real bottleneck. No wonder those who fell from the staircase were trampled under.

There was a big press conference yesterday with representatives of all the responsible (the organisers, the city leadership and bureaucrats who gave the questionable approvals, police leaders), but it was a bizarre event, with everyone refusing to answer questions of substance, and then a police leader visibly on the verge of tears gave a statement that there is full cooperation with investigators but no details will be revealed to media to protect his underlings.

Also, SPIEGEL reports (in the above linked article) it has information that at at least one police center, electronic data was wiped.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}