Dom, Ago 13th 2023
In midsummer weather, hundreds of thousands of people celebrated and danced at the 30th Street Parade in Zurich on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of techno fans danced around the Zurich lake basin on Saturday afternoon, the organizers estimated the number at around 920,000. Just in time for the start of the Technoparade at 2:00 p.m., it stopped raining in Zurich on Saturday afternoon and the sun came out again.
The event, which started as a dance demonstration in 1992, has long since grown into a large folk festival. Booming basses, sometimes shrill or very skimpy outfits and a relaxed atmosphere characterized the world’s largest techno party again this year.
Berset with feather boa on Lovemobile
For the first time, a Federal Councilor mingled with the dancing crowd. During his unannounced visit to the Street Parade, Berset joined the techno fans in a hat, sunglasses and feather boa and danced along on one of the parade’s 29 lovemobiles. The incumbent Federal President published a video of it on his Instagram account.
Before that, Berset met Joel Meier, the president of the Street Parade Association, and Marek Krynski, the founder of the event, at the Hotel Baur au Lac, accompanied by the Mayor of Zurich, Corine Mauch (SP).
In a guest article for the “Tages-Anzeiger”, Berset praised the importance of the major event. The Street Parade points to the important role that Zurich has played alongside Berlin in the history of techno. It is amazing that in 30 years no member of the state government has officially attended the event, Berset continued. The Street Parade deserves official recognition.
Music was played on the Lovemobiles and the stages along the route until midnight. After that, there were dozens of parties in Zurich clubs.
Seriously injured in a fall in a club
The Zurich security and rescue services were deployed on a large scale. As the city police announced on Sunday, they arrested 41 people for various crimes, 35 men and six women. The arrests were made for, among other things, robbery, assault, threats, violence and threats against officials, theft or drug trafficking. For the most part, the event was peaceful from the point of view of the police.
The rescue services recorded a total of six serious injuries. An 18-year-old Norwegian suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell about five meters from the platform of a club onto the ground floor of the bar. A 32-year-old Italian suffered serious head injuries after being beaten up by a 28-year-old compatriot. The police arrested the perpetrator.
A 28-year-old Pole found near Bürkliplatz had to go to the hospital with unspecified head injuries. How this came about was not clear on Sunday.
615 people were treated by the Zurich Protection and Rescue Service , mostly for cuts and abrasions as well as alcohol or narcotics abuse. In total, protection and rescue admitted 42 to the hospital. And until dawn they put 98 people in the patient collection center for surveillance and sobering up. The figures are in line with the previous year.
The university hospital’s emergency team treated 59 visitors to the parade. Mostly it was about alcohol or mixed intoxication, injuries after fights and falls as well as cuts.
The narcotics investigation confiscated more than 550 servings of ecstasy, 240 servings of MDMA, 240 servings of ketamine and around 60 grams of cocaine. Many people reported theft, for example because strangers had snatched jewellery from them.
Depot against mountains of waste
In order to reduce the mountains of waste that accumulate in each case, a depot for PET bottles and beverage cans was required at the official catering stands for the first time. In addition, as much waste as possible should be recycled.
It was unclear on Sunday whether the measures would bring the desired benefit. As an on-site inspection showed, as in previous years, there was a lot of rubbish on the ground, and numerous rubbish bins were already overflowing late on Saturday afternoon.
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