Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

File photo of a political rally at a stadium in Abidjan in 2005. 60 children are reported to have died after a stampede at a stadium in the city. SCHALK VAN ZUYDAM/AP

Côte d'Ivoire: 60 children killed in stampedes during New Year fireworks

The children, aged between 8 and 15, were killed in a stampede at a stadium during a firework display.

AT LEAST 60 children are reported to have been killed, and up to 200 more injured, after stampedes in the Côte d’Ivoire during celebrations to mark the New Year.

The country’s official news agency AIP said the casualties were aged between 8 and 15, according to CNN.

It said the stampede had occurred at about 1am, near a stadium in the Plateau area of Abidjan, and said the children were mostly locals.

AIP’s reports said fire service rescuers had arrived at the scene two hours later, but could not save the victims, AIP said.

Abidjan is the country’s largest city and its former capital, with a population of over 5 million.

Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone...
A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation.

Close
6 Comments
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Mikey
    Favourite Mikey
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:56 PM

    Theres no such thing as bad publici…..
    Oh, wait.

    153
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Niall H
    Favourite Niall H
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:55 PM

    He co-signed it?! And he’s still in politics? That’s the end of him and his party then….and rightly so!

    140
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Christicakes
    Favourite Christicakes
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:50 PM

    Sorry, what now??? A pro paedophile pamphlet in 1981? Can’t get my head around that one!!

    132
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fluich It
    Favourite Fluich It
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 10:25 PM

    Geese journal censors out in force again.

    18
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fluich It
    Favourite Fluich It
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 10:28 PM

    Journal prints a whole story on a German politician supporting paedophillia… I point out similarities with an Irish politician and my comments are removed? How does that work??

    53
    See 8 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:55 PM

    But Navid Dorris never said that he was similar to German politician

    22
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fluich It
    Favourite Fluich It
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 12:04 AM

    Tut tut

    13
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 12:10 AM

    Sorry I have a cold ….

    9
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fluich It
    Favourite Fluich It
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 12:27 AM

    It ain’t libellous if it’s true

    19
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 12:47 AM

    But it could cause a shcandal down here in the comments! Dontcha know!

    11
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Fluich It
    Favourite Fluich It
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 1:03 AM

    Your ok till 2moro.. I think ‘they’ finish at 12mn.. But come the morrow your comments will be toast!!

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 1:11 AM

    Probably, but the names have been changed to protect the identity of any potential minors

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Despicable You
    Favourite Despicable You
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 3:18 PM

    They never spotted it, you got away with telling the truth.

    2
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute James Darby
    Favourite James Darby
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:02 PM

    There has to be something seriously worrying about a society where such a proposal could even be discussed.

    94
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Richard Keogh
    Favourite Richard Keogh
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:59 PM

    It wasn’t the only country where this occured. Paedophiles seem to have a huge amount of influemce in the British parties and campaigned to get similar laws implemented there in the early 80s. One former Minister has been openly mentioned for his visits to Elm House for a number of years without ever engaging in legal action. Labour MP Tom Watson has tried to raise the issue but received threats. Just the other night CH4 ran a documentary on former Liberal MP Cyril Smith. http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/the-paedofile/

    22
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Keith Dickinson
    Favourite Keith Dickinson
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 12:02 AM

    You dont have to look far to find societies and Religions that support sex with children.

    18
    See 1 more reply ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute guardian
    Favourite guardian
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 1:05 AM

    It was legal in Holland. Company in existence called seventeen they mske porn its all 18 plus but back in 80 it was girls from 16. Colour climax too if you google review they started out filming child porn wbile it was legal and still now one of the biggest adult movie producers in Europe.

    Google the company’s very surprising reading

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute ptriley
    Favourite ptriley
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:55 PM

    Sicko then sicko now

    63
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Leslie Alan Rock
    Favourite Leslie Alan Rock
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:51 PM

    Thats you screwed me oul flower

    60
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute margaret
    Favourite margaret
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:06 PM

    I’m stuck for words! Revolting!

    53
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Dermot Ryan
    Favourite Dermot Ryan
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:20 PM

    Thanks be to God none of our Irish politicians have murky pasts ………………

    45
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Ping Pong
    Favourite Ping Pong
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:32 PM

    “There’s something to be said for classical pedophilea”

    28
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:36 PM

    Pederasty was it not? Whatever that is….

    16
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Martin Ryan
    Favourite Martin Ryan
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:32 PM

    I just read the opening sentence and am still trying to understand how ANYONE could support this!! Wtf!!!!

    44
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Joe Bergin
    Favourite Joe Bergin
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 8:57 PM

    What is he a politician or a priest?

    44
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Colin C
    Favourite Colin C
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:12 PM

    Cheap.

    37
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Barry
    Favourite Barry
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:32 PM

    Is it cheap though?

    Up until August 2013 the age of consent in the Vatican was 12.

    One has to query why this was the case especially given the churches track record,

    Such a low age basically meant any sex with a child aged as young as 12 was perfectly legal in the Vatican state.

    48
    See 2 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Joe Bergin
    Favourite Joe Bergin
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:32 PM

    Maybe. My parish is closed and the church was sold off for rich people’s condominiums. My parents were married in that Church and my mother, my sisters & I all baptized there. I didn’t enter my kids in that club…..for me – who can trust them you would have to be mad. Once the questioning starts I think it becomes absurd. But you are the sum of your whole life experiences.
    I saw a priest walking down the street towards me and I thought, ” No more you piece of sh&*” He caught my eye , read my mind and stepped right into my path. This a priest I never set eyes on before . I heard that scared little altar boy croak out, ” uuuuuh goodmorning fadda.” And I am 60 in 2 weeks. But I think the whole conspiracy is played. I teach my own reason and science, no magic or peasant superstitions…..those black devil’s days are over, no?

    16
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Gerry McGuinness
    Favourite Gerry McGuinness
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 8:39 AM

    And it’s 13 in Spain, are you going to apply the same theory?

    7
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Martin Brady
    Favourite Martin Brady
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:29 PM

    So South Park were right! This sickness is attempted to be justified!

    35
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Scrap Croke Park1
    Favourite Scrap Croke Park1
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:16 PM

    Cum to Ireland. We elect ANYBODY !!

    And ve half past vorm dealing vit ze little beeple. Your Velcome

    14
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Thérèse
    Favourite Thérèse
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:37 PM

    Why are people so shocked. Isn’t there a German MEP who admitted ‘playing with kids’ while he was a kindergarten teacher, and not that long ago six young children fainted in a sex-ed class in a school in Germany. Apparently it was like national school. It’s all there but not it’s more like grooming through sex ed. And the UK is worse.

    13
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Thérèse
    Favourite Thérèse
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 9:38 PM

    That should be * but NOW it’s more like grooming…’*

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Barry
    Favourite Barry
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 10:00 PM

    Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,

    Funny you’re trying to make out other country’s to be so awful, Ireland has a far far darker history when it comes to abuse,

    The fact that many Catholics in this country see no issue with Sean Brady still holding his position of power even though he was part of a cover up says it all,

    This is the same man that held a protest about the abortion legislation by walking around the knock shrine, but he wouldn’t walk 100metres to the local gardai station to report the sexual abuse he knew about and helped cover up.

    56
    See 3 more replies ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Mary Kavanagh
    Favourite Mary Kavanagh
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:23 PM

    Thérèse, there’s a very big difference between being groomed by a paedophile and being given proper sex education in school. In fact lack of sex education gives paedophiles a perfect opportunity to take advantage of children who aren’t taught about the dangers.

    31
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Thérèse
    Favourite Thérèse
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 1:13 AM

    Mary, six young children fainted in sex ed classes in Germany. It begs the question as to what was going on…. we cannot ignore it. There’s normal sex ed for the appropriate age, and there’s porn and grooming going on too.

    8
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Chris O' Mahony
    Favourite Chris O' Mahony
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 9:14 AM

    Here’s the story:
    http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130628-50567.html

    Here’s the explanation:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

    It happened to a load of Japanese kids watching a certain episode of Pokemon in 1997 too. Should we ban Pokemon?

    Germany has a very low teen pregnancy rate – half of that of the UK. German sex education is working, and porn and grooming are absolutely not part of the curriculum.

    3
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Simon Jester
    Favourite Simon Jester
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 10:24 PM

    German Greens…enuff said! Back then they were a movement against just about everything and pro the most oultlandish crackpot schemes.They still have a bunch of hard anarcho eco crusties,that like the Irish free state having to deal with the republicans in the four courts.the Greens had to order the water cannons up against their erstwhile colleuges.

    12
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 16th 2013, 11:51 PM

    A lot of young radical liberals in the 60′s/70′s and 80′s as part of the sexual liberation movement viewed any judgement on sexual activity as oppression by the man!!, it just took them a while to drop the paedophilia brigade from their ranks because the public opinion towards it from civil society was too strong.

    Check out the the affliliation between the UKs National Council for Civil Liberties and Paedophile Action for Liberation , and also affliliated with The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), from 1978 until 1983.

    16
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Chris O' Mahony
    Favourite Chris O' Mahony
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 9:04 AM

    We can’t blame Germans, this was a really common view in English-speaking countries in the 60s and 70s. There was a book written in 1980 by British/Irish “activist” Tom O’Carroll called “Paedophilia: The Radical Case” which used to be available to read for free on the internet. Not sure if it still is.

    If you want to read some disturbing statements from IPCE (formerly International Child and Paedophile Emancipation) about “consensual paedophile relationships with minors” and the ethics of “boylove”, have a look here: http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/statements.htm Totally SFW, by the way. Just uncomfortable to read, for me anyway.

    PfA, this is the fist time I’ve ever agreed with (part of) one of your posts. I think I may need to take a lie down now.

    3
    See 1 more reply ▾
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Peace for All
    Favourite Peace for All
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 4:40 PM

    Well done Chris, eventually you’ll see sense on a whole range of issues.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute John Paul Hayes
    Favourite John Paul Hayes
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 4:43 PM

    If I were a member of the German public, I’d be asking for the names of the lobbists who were pushing for this at the time.

    3
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Cathal O'Donoghue
    Favourite Cathal O'Donoghue
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 3:31 PM

    Just confirms my view of the green movement in general. Irresponsible naive hippie dreamers with a tenuous grip on reality.

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Joseph C. Brady
    Favourite Joseph C. Brady
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 4:42 AM

    Ya.think????

    1
    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute Mikie Twoshoes
    Favourite Mikie Twoshoes
    Report
    Sep 17th 2013, 9:44 AM

    The Germans are very regretful people.

    1
Submit a report
Please help us understand how this comment violates our community guidelines.
Thank you for the feedback
Your feedback has been sent to our team for review.