Antoni Tàpies supports the suppression of bullfights

Barcelona.– On the request of NGO ADDA the prestigious painter and essayist, Antoni Tàpies, signed on April 19, 2010 the declaration against bullfights in which he attests that he believes that bulls are animals possessing physical and mental sensibility and that bullfights inflict on these animals an atrocious suffering. The artist requests the Catalonian Parlament to modify the Catalonian law for the Protection of Animals (22/2003) and remove the clause that makes an exception for bullfights, leaving them outside of the scope of the law and so allowing bullfights to take place in Catalonia. (April, 2010)