Francia proposes to abolish bullfights

Paris. – With just one month to go until the Catalan Parlament votes definitively on the Popular vote against the bullfights, in France, the socialistic deputy Geneviève Gaillard and the Conservative Muriel Marland-Militello, presented last June 8 in Paris the first proposal for a law to bring about the abolition of bullfights in France with every possibility of a good outcome. The proposal opposes the bullfights, in which approximately 700 bulls and steers are killed in France every year, in more than 110 spectacles. The proposal also seeks to abolish cockfights, a local tradition much practiced in certain regions of the north of the country. There are only around 75 cities and towns in France that stage bullfighting spectacles, although the course camargaise (a type of bull running event) continues to be held in the Camargue region of southeastern France as well as the course landaise ( a type of bull running using female animals only), of the Gascon tradition in the French south-west. If the French proposal prospers it will represent a great step forward for the anti bullfighting movement in France. (June, 2010)