Andalusia, Spain. – the website of the Andalusian Association for the Defense of the Animals (ASANDA) has announced that it is initiating contacts with all Andalusian councilmen prepared to raise a motion of antibullfighting the city council. In addition, ASANDA offers them a model action plan. Although it is a fact that the majority of [...]
Barcelona.- The captain of the Football Club Barcelona and defender of the Spanish selection Carles Puyol has said categorically that he would vote for the prohibition of bullfights in Catalonia: “Yes I would prohibit the bullfights” Puyol assured a reporter of the newspaper “El País”. This is a further demonstration of the innumerable statements of [...]
Barcelona – According to information in the 17th July 2010 edition of the digital periodical ‘The Voice of Barcelona’ the company that manages the Monument bullfight arena in Barcelona, Funciones Taurinas, has launched a new publicity campaign. Advertisements stuck onto the rear headrests of the cars of a Barcelona taxi fleet, includes announcements of an [...]
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 [...]
Barcelona. – the French actress Brigitte Bardot, tireless advocate in the cause of animals, on June 2nd signed the declaration against the bullfights asking the parliament of Catalonia to modify the existing animal protection law. Her support is added to that of his Holiness by Dalai Lama, Honoured Associate of the Bardot Foundation and [...]
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 [...]
Madrid. – The bull killer Emilio de Justo has given a talk to 64 children understood to be between 4 and 5 years of age in of the Center of Infantile Education of Joaquín Ballesteros de Moraleja (close to Madrid) . The bull killer told the children of his beginnings in bullfighting and how [...]
Madrid. – The association, ‘El Refugio’ (the refuge) has gathered more than 60,000 signatures, more exactly 60,208, against with the aim of presenting a Popular Legislative Initiative against bullfights and bullfighting events in the Community of Madrid. According to the organization, the Assembly of the Community of Madrid has put all kinds of [...]
