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France.- Last 13/12/2009, the Union of French bullfighting cities (UVTF) announced with great fanfare, that they have taken steps to request the inclusion of bullfighting culture in the Intangible Heritage of UNESCO . However, to be presented to UNESCO, the application requires prior approval by the French State. The French anti-bullfighting Association Alliance [...]
Ceret, France.- Last 11th July, 2010, 22 antibullfighting activists from the organizations CRAC EUROPE and ONE VOICE gained access, having paid for their entry tickets, to the bullring of Ceret in order to place two banners of 3 meters long with the inscriptions “bullfight = barbarism” and “bullfight = torture”. Twelve of the activists [...]
Marboz, Ain, France.- The French affiliations for the defense of animal well-being, Alliance Anticorrida and OABA (Oeuvre d’Assistance aux Bêtes d’Abbatoirs) have for years been organizing campaigns to prevent the establishment of a type of spectacle that constitutes a clear step on the road to bullfights in Marboz (Ain). The mayor of the municipality assures [...]
Nîmes, France.- The French associations One Voice and CRAC Europe have launched, in the city of Nîmes, the campaign “Operation Sitting Bull” that will be rolled out in three stages. Next Saturday, the 17th of July at 17.30, a silent vigil will be held in Place de la Maison Carré for the bulls killed during [...]
Francia.- During the parliamentary step of the Popular Legislative Initiative, ILP to suppress the bullfights in Bullfighting Catalunya, the French Bullfighting Union sent a written statement of support for bullfighting to all the deputies of the Catalan Parliament. However the statement, supposedly endorsed by elected representatives, turned out to be full of errors and [...]
Paris. – Headed by the teacher Jean-François Courreau, veterinary of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, the Veterinarian Nathalie Milhas and Dr. Jean-Paul Richier a psychiatrist concerned about violence towards animals, the first Association of Veterinarians Opposed to Bullfights has been created in Paris. They have the support of 170 French veterinarians who have signed [...]
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 [...]
Paris, France. – deputies Muriel Marland Militello and Geneviève Gaillard, president and vice-president of the Parliamentary Study Group for animal protection, presented, on June 9, a proposal for a law for the abolition of bullfights and cock fights at the Paris National Assembly. In the same action the French collective of vetenarians attended to speak [...]
Nimes, Francia. – The members of the commercial center Carrefour-Nimes-Etoile have attempted to publicise bullfights by raffling a suit of lights (traditional bullfighter costume) and tickets to bullfights in order to promote the Nimes Fair. The companies Yves Rocher and Frank Provost disassociated themselves from this initiative as soon as they heard about the theme [...]
Nimes, Francia. -The French affiliation CRAC Europe, (Committee Radicalement Anticorrida), is gathering signatures across their web page against the pretension that the UNESCO, with its head office in Paris, declares that bullfights qualify as “Non material Patrimony of Humanity”. To date, the affiliation has gathered more than 6.500 signatures, which will be sent to [...]
