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Memorial candles are brought to Salvator Church in Duisburg to honour victims of the Love Parade techno music holiday. (Mark Keppler/DAPDAssociated Press) Thousands of people paid their respects Saturday in the western German incorporated town of Duisburg to victims of the Love Parade tragedy.

Twenty-one the masses were crushed to departure last weekend in a tunnel leading to a freight-train yard, the extraforaneous venue of the techno music festive celebration.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulff as for one’s interest as families of the victims attended the memorial.

The memorial at Salvator Church was shown on screens in a football stadium and a dozen other churches in Duisburg.

Several TV stations carried the service live, and flags athwart the country flew at half-mast. After the sermons, rescue helpers lit 21 candles.

The governor of the west. occidental state of North Rhine-Westphalia — where Duisburg is located — in addition gave a speech.

Visibly shaken, Hannelore Kraft talked about the many partygoers who survived the heap panic. Her concede son, 17-year-old Jan, also attended the Love Parade, still was not injured.

For several hours posterior portion the tragedy, the governor was not able to contact him on this account that the cellphone scheme in Duisburg had collapsed.

“There are many thousands who survived but whose souls were injured,” Kraft reported. “They are suffering in tut.”

The dead were 18 to 38 years old, and included population from Spain, Australia, Italy, Bosnia, China and the Netherlands.

Another 500 were injured, 25 of whom are reportedly however in hospital.

A preliminary police repercussion accuses the event organizer of greater security breaches that may have led to the crush.

There are also media reports that police and fire officials had expressed reservations about the unsuitability of the venue as hostile back as October.

With files from The Associated Press