He cleaned the face of the bloody turret before giving it the final blow. A chilling scene that shows, once again, all the cruelty of the bullfight. And we, in this gesture of the matador, do not see any kind of empathy.
He cleaned the face of the bloody turret before giving it the final blow. A chilling scene that shows, once again, all the cruelty of the bullfight. And we, in this gesture of the matador, do not see any kind of empathy.
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He took a handkerchief and wiped the bull's blood, after torturing him mercilessly (and senselessly) during the bullfight. Moorish from Puebla, 39-year-old matador at the Real Maestranza arena in Seville, was the protagonist of a gesture that was not liked by many and clearly we are not talking about who becomes an accomplice in the killing of an animal, paying a ticket to witness its death.
Let's not call it tradition and let's not call it folklore. There is nothing funny here and this video, which already has millions of views on the net, should make us think.
After spearing the animal with four banderillas, the swords used by bullfighters, Morante de la Puebla approached the dying bull and wiped away the tears of blood that ran down its muzzle. The bullfighter was hit by criticism and the hypotheses about his gesture ended up on the net. There are those who see it as a gesture of pity, some simply a practice to prevent the public from seeing too much blood, some even an action as a sign of respect for the animal.
All hypotheses that leave us perplexed. What pity can a man feel who is killing an animal just for the amusement of others? Can we ever think that those who freely go to the bullfight are impressed by the blood? And finally, what respect for animals are we talking about?
Here we are talking about a man who after drying the blood, gives the final blow to the bull.
“Only a wicked and wicked mind could torture an animal until blood drips on its paws and then wipe its face with a handkerchief. The matador showed his lack of empathy, ”says Silvia Barquero Nogales, leader of the Spanish political party Pacma, animal rights activists against animal abuse.
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