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Paris, February 11th, 2012. – More than 4,000 people have participated in a demonstration against bullfights in France. The demonstration was organised jointly by animal welfare associations: Animals in Peril, CRAC Europe, Rights of the Animals and a collective of a further 188 associations grouped under “No to French shame, ” of which Ong ADDA [...]
Nimes, December 2011.- On the occasion of the upcoming legislative elections and the presidency of the French government, several animal protection organizations have called for, a large demonstration against animal abuse in Nîmes (France) . The demonstration is to be held on Saturday, March 24, 2012. The aim is to mobilize the public and present [...]
Nimes, December 2011.-The collective association “no to the French shame” has called for, a large demonstration in Paris at the headquarters of the National Assembly. The demonstration is to followed by a march in central Paris to protest against the registration of bullfighting in France as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The demonstration is [...]
France, December 2011 .- The French killer of bulls Sebastien Castella, declared to the Ecuadorian newspaper “Hoy”, that he hates hunting and fishing and “does not like seeing animals suffer.” In addition he states that while he likes the” art “of bullfighting, and the bull’s death in his opinion is ” necessary “, he hates [...]
November 2011. – The relentless decline of bullfighting in France has led to the creation of the “G7″, a group that brings together the seven main organizers of bullfights in France, to “perpetuate the art of bullfighting in the context of the crisis.” They have proposed to that the fees of the most sought after [...]
Nimes, September 2011.-The associations; CLAM of Montpellier, CRAC Europe and the group Lutèce distributed pamphlets during the Nimes’s feria , against bullfights. They also organized a concerted protest in front of the bullring at the foot of the statue of the bullfighter Nimeño II. Nevertheless, although the demonstration was peaceful and properly authorized by the [...]
Paris, June 2011.-Philippe Bélaval is the Director General for Patrimony, the body responsable for the inclusion of bullfights in the Immaterial Cultural heritage of France. It seems that he is also however a passionate fan of bullfights, a charter member of the National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures (ONGT) and of the Union of Bullfighting French [...]
The web page of the French organisation “Terres Taurine” has now officially confirmed what was already common knowledge, the support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a supporter of the cruel and archaic practice of bullfighting. According to the published on the web page of “Terres Taurines”, Sarkozy openly supports the registration of bullfights in [...]
Nîmes, June 2011. In May -the antibullfighting affiliation ‘Alliance Anticorrida’ sent an open letter to the Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand. The initiative was taken in collaboration with 6 large French affiliations and was published in the newspaper Le Parisien. Now the Alliance has decided to go further and has just presented, through the lawyer [...]
France .- The French Ministry of Culture has registered bullfights as an “Intangible Cultural Heritage”. This is despite the fact that the vast majority of French people are opposed to these spectacles and that they are prohibited and considered by the Penal Code, as abuse and cruelty to animals in 90% of French territory . [...]
