A dozen anti-bullfighting demonstrators in Avignon
“It’s torture in the name of traditions. When a tradition is not good, we stop it”, Marie-Thérèse is indignant with a sign of a bloody bull in her hand. They were a dozen anti-species activists in front of the Halles d’Avignon on Place Pie this Saturday, November 19. A bill by deputy Aymeric Caron aimed at abolishing bullfighting in France must be debated this Thursday, November 24 in the National Assembly. The opportunity for these animal rights activists to support the MP.
Obsolete Deviants
In France, more than 200 bullfights are organized each year. In fact, the law prohibits animal abuse, but 56 cities out of the 35,000 French municipalities have exemptions for organizing these events. For Denis Schmid, the representative of the animalist party in Vaucluse, these exemptions are obsolete. “In the 1950s, the deputies did not have the courage to submit these dissident cities to the law. Today we know more about animals and animal welfare, it is time to enforce the law” , he explains.
An amendment tabled by Gard RN deputy Yoann Gillet to delete the single article of the bill was approved last Wednesday in the law commission. An opinion therefore recommended before the debate at the meeting. But Denis Schmid remains delighted: “it is the first time that a text in favor of the abolition of this practice goes so far. And if he does not go into reserve.