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A tech parade including the founder of Love Parade took to the streets of the German capital to call for the city’s electronic music culture to be included on the World Heritage List.
The “Rave the Planet” parade departs from Berlin’s Kurfuerstendamm shopping boulevard to the Victory Column in the middle of the Tiergarten Park.
According to German news agency dpa, police estimated that 20,000 people took part in the march in cool, rainy weather.
They deployed 600 police officers, but no disturbances were reported.
One of the parade’s organizers, a professional DJ known as Dr. Mott, called for an unconditional basic income for artists and listed Berlin’s club culture as an intangible heritage of the United Nations cultural agency, Unesco.
Dr. Motte, 62, is best known for founding the Love Parade, which grew from a small parade of 150 revellers in 1989 to a 1.5 million-member festival and street party a decade later.
The event’s popularity has since declined and was last held in Berlin in 2006.
Since then, in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region, different organizers have hosted parties under the Love Parade brand, but it ended after a mass panic at the Duisburg event in 2010 killed 21 people.
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