On July 24, 2010, 21 people died in a crowd crush at the Love Parade in Duisburg. Afterward, the city, the organizer and the police blamed one another. The head of the state police of North Rhine-Westphalia said at a press conference: Der Veranstalter und nur der Veranstalter war für die Sicherheit der Menschen auf dem Veranstaltungsgelände zuständig. The organizer, and only the organizer, was responsible for the safety of the people on the site. An interim report by lawyers commissioned by the city concluded, provisionally, that the city had not been responsible for safety on the site. The trial began on December 8, 2017, at the regional court in Duisburg. On May 4, 2020, the proceedings against the last three defendants were discontinued, partly because of the restrictions expected from the Corona crisis. The trial ended without a verdict.