A second day against bullfighting: around thirty towns are rallying
For the second year in a row, we are organising coordinated and combined activist action in around thirty French towns (see below for the list and dates) to call for an end to bullfighting. This event, which will be held on 10 and 11 June, led by Alliance Éthique and One Voice as “Let’s Stop Bullfighting”, gathers together several partner associations. We will be raising public awareness there and will bring our demands to spare bulls and horses that are victims of this bloody practice.
In 2012 then in 2019, One Voice led an investigation into bullfighting schools. Full of footage of children encouraged to kill young bulls just as scared as them, we asked for a ban on these ‘training centres’ for minors, and a ban on children being admitted to these spectacles.
In recent months, voices against bullfighting have continued to make themselves heard. The French population is almost unanimously calling for it to be banned. Last November, with around one hundred partners, we supported the bill to carry out this reform. Bringing this subject before the National Assembly represents a big step forward.
And last May, the Montpellier Administrative Tribunal, referred to by CRAC Europe and the Alliance Anticorrida, suspended an attempt by the Pérols Mayor to resume bullfighting there.
We therefore remain ready to rally more than ever for this morbid ‘spectacle’ to stop benefiting from local exemptions for the torture of bulls by using horses as tools and by training young people to kill them or forcing them to attend. No tradition can justify such treatment.
Together, as we did last year and as months have gone by, in the investigation into the Grape Harvest Festival or with the priest in Arles, let’s call for an end to bullfighting!
You can find all of the events up-to-date online.
The majority of the action is happening on Saturday 10 June.
Last minute changes can happen; consult the page for each event before going there.
Translated from the French by Joely Justice