The National Association for the Protection and Well-being of the animals (ANPBA) has appealed against the decision to not prohibit the fire bulls and bulls with roped horns

Madrid.- ANPBA, who have their head office in Madrid, has announced that it will present an appeal before the Top Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) against the judgment that rejected the prohibition of the festival of bous “embolats” (bulls with fire on their horns) and “capllaçats” (bulls with roped horns) in the south of Tarragona.
In the ANPBA appeal various judgments of the Provincial Hearing of Palencia and of the Top Court of Justice of Madrid are presented, where it is admitted that the celebrations of bulls messes and ensogados involves ill-treatment toward the animals. Also, it adds, these types of celebration are implicitly prohibited in Catalan legislation, which recognizes the “physical sensibility” of the animals. (July, 2010)