Soolking ConcertAlgiers · 22 August 2019
A source-led incident page covering the fatal crowd crush before Soolking’s concert at the August 20 stadium in Algiers, with reported casualties, official follow-up and disputed details separated clearly.
Incident Overview
What happened
Date: 22 August 2019. Multiple sources place the incident on the night of Thursday, ahead of Soolking’s concert in Algiers.
Location: Sources describe the site as the August 20 stadium / Stade du 20-Août / Stade du 20-Août-1955 in Algiers. Several local reports specify Belouizdad, Algiers, Algeria.
Incident name: Soolking Concert – Algiers. Source wording also uses stampede, bousculade, or crush before or at Soolking’s concert.
Short Summary
Fatal entrance crush
A crowd crush / stampede occurred outside or at an entrance to the stadium before the concert.
Reporting consistently states that five people died. Injury figures vary across sources, including 21, 23, 86 treated on site, 32 transferred to hospital and later summaries of more than 80 injured.
Prosecutors opened an investigation. Later reporting says officials were dismissed, the culture minister resigned and court sentences followed.
Review disputed details →Key Facts
Source-supported figures
Chronology
Incident sequence
Operational Details
Key themes
Disputed Details
Conflicts and unresolved points
The core incident is well supported: a fatal crowd crush before Soolking’s concert in Algiers. The main problems are injury counting, victim descriptions and venue wording.
Sources do not use one consistent measure. Some give injured totals, others give people treated on site or hospital transfers.
TSA reported 21 injured. Radio Algérienne reported 23 injured.
Several reports give 86 treated on site and 32 transferred to hospital, while later summaries use “more than 80 injured”.
A single definitive injury total was not verified. Use the figures with their source context.
Sources agree five people died, but differ on their ages and male/female breakdown.
Reported two young women aged 19 and 22 and three boys aged 13, 21 and 16.
Reported APS citing three young women and two young men aged 20 to 25.
TSA gave an age range of 13 to 22 and noted one victim had not yet been formally identified at that stage.
Sources refer to the August 20 stadium using several English and French forms.
“August 20 stadium” or “August-20 Stadium”.
“Stade du 20 août”, “Stade du 20 Août 1955”, or “stade 20 août de Belouizdad”.
These appear to refer to the same venue in Belouizdad, Algiers. A precise street address was not verified.
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Unverified details
These points should remain caveated unless better primary evidence is found.
Source Material
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