Entries of the category News of France / Back home
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 . [...]
Fadgen is a calf rescued by Christophe, a French farmer of Bretagne from the cruel fate of death in the bullring. The anti-bullfighting Association CRAC Europe assisted with sponsorship and now Fadgen, who is already 18 months old, lives happily in Bretagne and has become the mascot of French anti-bullfighting supporters. The Foundation ’30 Millions [...]
The president of the bullfighting committee of Orthez, a small town in the southwest of France, has announced that free tickets will be given out for minors under the age of 18 to attend bullfights. He considers it an “investment” designed to arouse the young generations’ interest in bullfights. It is sad to see that [...]
March 2011.-On September 12, 2009, during a bullfighting celebration in Arcas de Villar (Cuenca – Comunidad de Castilla-La Mancha), some participants tied three steers with a rope and made repeated unsucessful attempts to kill them. They did not finish them because they failed to deliver the killing blow with a knife to the neck to [...]
The Association Alliance anti-corrida (Anti bullfight Alliance), alerted by the parents of pupils at an institute of Nîmes, had to intervene when the Spanish teacher proposed to invite to the school a representative of the Museum of Bullfighting Cultures. His proposal was sparked when children of the 6th year (11 years of age) said that [...]
The head of the company that runs the Nimes bullring, Simon Casas, has admitted that his proposed project to organize a bullfighting festival in Abu Dhabi has not managed to convince his prospective customers and that the negotiations with the son of the emir of Abu Dhabi are in deadlock
Much as it hurts French Bullfight supporters to recognise it, statistics show that bullfights have been in permanent decline in France since 2003. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of cities where bullfights are held has gone from 50 to 49 and the number of festivals, from 174 to 130. This regression began in 2004 [...]
In an interview granted to the Newspaper of Malaga, André Viard, retired bull killer and the Director of the Bullfighting Observatory of France, declares that the economic crisis has not affected bullfighting in France. According to Viard, in France there exists “lots of fans who form a considerable cultural community ”. He also denies that [...]
Gard Region. – 9 of 16 municipalities that take part in the tournament for “bull killers” beginners called ‘seedling bullfighters ’ `presented the sad spectacle of adolescents of between 13 and 16 years cruelly torturing and killing calves. The suffering of the calves is prolonged and agonising since these young beginners do not have the [...]
Paris. – The spectacle ” Les belles histoires “, of the comic and author Henry-Jean Servat, programmed last November in the town of Beaucaire, near to Nimes, has been cancelled on the authority of the mayor of the town. The mayor is known for his pro bullfighting leanings and issued the ban following openly antibullfighting [...]
