The Second Horizon Festival, scheduled to take place this weekend near Berlin, got off to a bad start.
This story originally appeared on THUMP Germany.
Approximately two thousand attendees at the Second Horizon Festival near Berlin were forced to return home after local authorities shut it down a few hours into its first day.
Second Horizon, which was scheduled to run from today (Friday, June 23) until Monday at Kiekebusch Lake, was banned earlier this month by the local Schönefeld municipality who deemed it a "threat to public security and order," according to a statement on the authority's website. The local police also tweeted on Wednesday that ticket-holders should not attempt to go to the festival.
Despite the ban, ticket-holders started to show up to the festival site on Thursday night, reports local publication BZ. The authorities allowed them to remain in the camping grounds overnight due to a severe storm in the area.
In a Facebook post last night, festival organizers stated they'd filed an appeal to overturn the ban, but the Administrative Court of Cottbus earlier this morning upheld the municipality's ban citing a lack of permits, according to BZ. As a press officer for the Administrative Court told the publication, the festival did not have approval for its installations, and also lacked permits for the camping site. Additionally, the organizer had submitted the relevant documents for examination past the deadline.
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