Correspondent in Madrid
When he started collecting signatures with his fellow activists in 2007, Leonardo Anselmi wasn’t really sure that their initiative would succeed. “We were even quite pessimistic, fifteen years later, he knows the former spokesperson for the animal movement Prou! (“Enough”, in Catalan). But it was our duty to try.” Finally, on July 28, 2010, the regional parliament of Catalonia, which was seized by this citizens’ petition, voted 68 in favor, 55 against, and 9 abstentions in favor of a total ban on bullfighting in the autonomous community. When leaving his native Colombia to continue his studies, Nicolas Sampedro chose to settle in the Catalan capital in 2003, among other reasons, so that he could go to the Monumental, Barcelona’s bullring, every Sunday of the season.
“Lover for Life” and even, as a teenager, a novillero, an apprentice torero on young bulls, he didn’t imagine, he didn’t…
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Source: Le Figaro
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