It looks like a horror video: a young bull, tied to a rope in the public square and incited to charge. Unarmed moves bewildered among the laughter of the people. Here's where.
It looks like a horror video: a young bull, tied to a rope in the public square and incited to charge. Unarmed moves bewildered among the laughter of the people. Here's where.
He falls to the ground and gets up from a slippery floor. The poor bull is in Azpeitia Square, in Spain where some of the inhabitants have fun like this: in an ignoble way, one might say.
The problem is that this kind of show where we can't really understand what there is to laugh about is considered a form of traditional folklore.
It is called the Sokamuturra and it consists precisely in keeping a bull tied with a rope in a public square. People can come close to challenge the animal.
But who thinks of the bull? Stressed, subjected to anxiety and suffering. To report once again is the animal rights group Animal Freedom Navarre.
In this video, the little bull is in danger of breaking his leg, he looks around, someone shakes an umbrella against him and he is helpless and exhausted.
Nobody does anything, nobody cares, it's all normal. Umbrellas, kicks, laughs.
“They are unable to see how these creatures suffer as they learn what it means to be mistreated. We educate to empathy, respect and love towards all living creatures ”, writes the animal rights group.
Another show in the same square:
However, one voice is not enough. In Spain, bullfighting continues to claim victims and governments to finance shows worth millions of euros.
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Dominella Trunfio
