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Bulls have gored seven people to death during festivals
across Spain since the beginning of July – four of them over
the past weekend. The deaths occurred during bull-running
in the streets, not in bullrings. It is an unusually high
number of fatalities for such a short period. Among them
was a 36-year-old town councillor gored in Penafiel, a
town near Valladolid, north of Madrid. BBC was there:
Further north an 18-year-old man gored in
the stomach died in Lerin, Navarra. The
other deaths occurred during bull festivals in
the regions of Valencia, Murcia, Toledo,
Castellon and Alicante. Last year more than
7,200 bulls and steers (castrated bull calves)
were killed by bullfighters across Spain, the
news website El Diario reports.
Nearly 2,000 bullfights – or “corridas” – are
still held in the country every year, but the
numbers are falling. In 2010, Catalonia
became the second Spanish region after the
Canary Islands to ban the
tradition. Opponents condemn bullfighting as
barbaric, but it still has many fans in Spain,
including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
A Spanish law passed in 2013 defends
bullfighting as part of the nation’s cultural
heritage, saying it is the state’s duty to
“preserve it and promote it”, El Pais website
reports.
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