About 200 activists from dozens of animal associations and parties symbolically embodied human bullfighting in Paris this Saturday, demanding the abolition of this practice in France. A bill to this effect, introduced by Aymeric Caron of the Environmental Revolution for Living (REV) party on LFI, is to be debated in the Assembly on Thursday. On the contrary, hundreds of people demonstrated in several cities in the south, such as Dax, Bayonne, Auch or Béziers, to say:yes to bullfighting“.
In Paris, the demonstrators gathered in the arch symbolizing the square, Place du Châtelet square, they asked.relegate bullrings to the dustbin of history“. Four activists carrying horns, bent over, flanked a young woman disguised as a bullfighter and carrying real banderillas, used to weaken bulls before they are killed.
Criticizing the cultural or ecological issues raised by the defenders of this activity, which is allowed by deviation in the three regions of PACA, Occitanie and New Aquitaine, the protesters shouted:death is not tradition, we want abolition“. “The laws should be the same throughout the territory, it is not for the minority to impose its opinion on the majority;said Marie-Anne Lenevaux of the Radical Anti-Bull Fighting Committee (CRAC).
“Killing shouldn’t be a showExclaimed Valerie, an activist from Béziers, while Amandine Sanwissen, from the Paris Zoo Association, originally from Toulouse, countered the arguments.ashamed“Southwest elected officials pushing”countryside“or one”southern spiritto justify the observance of bullfights. “Cowards and sadists who confuse love and violence“According to him.
Deputy Aymeric Karon appealed especially to Renaissance deputies to vote with their soul and conscience. “The cause of animal rights in connection with the cause of livelihood can no longer be avoided, whatever happens on Thursday, it will not be the end, it will be the beginning;– he announced.
Another sitting MEP, Daniel Simone (LFI, Paris), also appealed to the majority of MEPs who voted to ban live animals in circuses last year. “And a show depicting animal suffering, such as bullfighting, would remain permitted.he exclaimed asking.republican law throughout the territory“. Similar demonstrations are taking place on Saturday in 40 other cities, Aymeric Caron recalled.
“Leave us alone”
In Dax (Landes), 800 people, according to the police (1,500 according to organizers), including many elected officials from all parties and members of local peñas (bullfighting associations), marched in the rain against “a bohemian Parisian MP with no interest in our local identitiesIn the words of Mayor Julien Dubois (right).
“It is not bullfighting that is under attack, but the diversity of our regions, the cultural wealth (…), that is why we should not let it go.Charles Deyot, the mayor of Mont-de-Marsan, claimed at another demonstration, which gathered about 300 people in front of the Landes prefecture.
According to the mayor of Saint-Perdon (1700 inhabitants) Jean-Louis Dariotor.bullfighting maintains a real social, intergenerational connection in the villagesand forms an economic sector, from breeding to organizing festivals.
They were also 250 people in Auch (Gers), including MPs Jean-René Cazeneuve (Renaissance) and David Taupiak (PS), gathered in front of the d’Artagnan statue. “Targeted attacks on bullfighting also include hunting, force-feeding and, tomorrow, possibly alcohol.“, criticized Michel Bailac, president of the Association of French Mayors in Geres.
Further east in Beziers, a pro-bullfighting rally drew dozens of people, with Mayor Robert Menard and Rep. Emmanuelle Menard and his wife in attendance. “leave us alone“Bitterroys bullfighting club president Bernard Moulay asked, specifically, about Aymeric Caron, described as”a great defender of mosquitoes and rats“, reports the AFP photographer on the spot.
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In Bayonne, about 350 people gathered in front of the Pyrénées-Atlantique subprefecture, including French bullfighter Julien Lescaret, who denounced “extreme obscurity“. “This is the first time that the issue has been raised in the National Assembly, and we had to reactOlivier Barachart, director of local arenas, assessed.
Pro-bullfighting demonstrations were planned in other cities.bullfightlike Pau, Nîmes or Perpignan. According to their organizers, 40 anti-bullfighting demonstrations are planned in France this weekend.
Source: Le Figaro
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