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 Above – “Tordesillas’ mayor Jose Antonio Gonzalez Poncela played down the protests, saying there were similar demonstrations at bullrings around Spain “so it is nothing more than that”.

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http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/photographer-gored-after-this-pic/story-e6frfq80-1226721385871

A PHOTOGRAPHER has taken these striking images of a 580-kilogram bull named Vulcano moments before the bull gored him in the thigh.

As part of a medieval festival young men in jeans or shorts and T-shirts chased Vulcano through the fortified town of Tordesillas in central Spain.

It was slaughtered after crossing a bridge into a meadow where it faced crowds of people, some on horseback and many carrying lances.

A total of 12 people were injured in the event, known as Toro de la Vega, a Red Cross spokesman said.

Most people suffered cuts and bruises but two people had broken bones and one person was gored: photographer Pedro Armestre, 41, a freelancer who works regularly for AFP and was covering the event for the agency.

The bull gored Armestre in the right thigh.

Armestre, who was conscious and speaking to AFP’s Madrid office after the injury, was taken to a hospital in Valladolid for surgery.

A man riding a horse stabs a bull with a spear during the ‘Toro de la Vega’ festival, in Tordesillas. Picture: Pedro Armestre.

The Red Cross official said Armestre’s condition was serious but not life-threatening, describing the skewering as “long but not too deep, that is to say, it is not an excessively serious goring”.

Hundreds of activists from the Party Against Bullfighting and Animal Cruelty (PACMA), protested in Madrid three days ahead of the event. Banners at the protest declared: “Torture is not culture” and “Stop Toro de la Vega”.

Activists from the group delivered a petition to Spain’s parliament, saying it contained more than 85,000 signatures opposing the Toro de la Vega.

Tordesillas’ mayor Jose Antonio Gonzalez Poncela played down the protests, saying there were similar demonstrations at bullrings around Spain “so it is nothing more than that”.

“There are always people in favour and people against in all aspects of life, not just for bullfighting,” he told Spanish public radio RTVE.  

The festival is one of the oldest in Spain with roots dating back to the fifteenth century. The bull has to be enticed across the river from the village to the plain ‘Vega’ before it can be killed to honour the ‘Virgen de la Pena’. Picture: Pedro Armestre

Please click on the following link and then scroll down to see video footage of this bloodlust by the braindead:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358447

The brutal “Toro de la Vega” event is set to happen tomorrow in Tordesillas, Castile & León region in central Spain. Last night, 20 of the bulls which are to be used in the festival either escaped, or were purposely let out.

Digital Journal reported on the festival and the protest held in Madrid on Saturday, with ten to fifteen thousand people rallying against the brutal ritual. The “Toro de la Vega” festival features a bull being released into the meadow and slaughtered by people on horseback and on foot.

The protest was organized by the Partido Animalista (PACMA) and thousands condemn the festival as a brutal and medieval act that should be stopped.

A video of Saturday’s protest is included above.

20 of the bulls intended for the festivities went missing on Sunday and officials in the town are not ruling out possible sabotage.

The bulls were in the corrals in a meadow in the vicinity of Salamanca road, where the event is set to take place on Tuesday. Someone had released the bulls.

While it sounds like the Partido Animalista might be involved, according to the local mayor, José Antonio González Poncela, “no one knows who and how they have been able to escape but we do not believe this was the act of the anti-bullfighting people” adding that this would have to have been done by someone used to working with bulls.

The bulls have since been led back to the corrals in the early hours of the morning ready for the event tomorrow.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358447#ixzz2fFV0XDWt

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