Guest guest Posted September 3, 2002 Report Share Posted September 3, 2002 sooo..if towns with a strong tradition of burning witches, heretics, etc existed, apparantly we could start the Inquisition again as well... Protest as French town stages bullfight FRANCE: September 3, 2002 CARCASSONNE - Animal welfare campaigners demonstrated outside the arena in the medieval French town of Carcassonne which held its first bullfight in 50 years on the weekend. Waving banners that said " No to torture, no to bullfights " and " Carcassonne is not a bloody city " , a crowd of around 200 people gathered as the corrida started to the music of famous French opera " Carmen " . Inside the arena some 2,000 bullfight " afficionados " cheered the three torreros. The bullfight has unleashed protests from animal welfare activists including former film star Brigitte Bardot. A small bomb exploded overnight near the arena but the homemade device caused no damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but Bernard Castans, head of the bullfighting club organising the show, was prompt to react. " All these opposition movements are more than regrettable and when there are bombs that could have killed then we can talk of a murderous fanaticism, " he told Reuters. In a case that has attracted worldwide attention, a local civil court overruled on Friday objections from campaigners seeking to halt the Spanish-style bullfight, the first in the southwestern town since 1954. Two separate animal welfare groups had filed a suit seeking to block the bullfight on the grounds that it was not a local custom. They have appealed Friday's ruling. While torturing animals is illegal under French law, bullfights, or corridas, are permitted in areas that have an unbroken local tradition of ritually slaughtering bulls. Raymond Chesa, the mayor of Carcassonne, has defended his decision to authorise the planned novillada, a fight involving young bulls, on the grounds that the area has a strong Spanish immigrant tradition. Story by Nicolas Fichot REUTERS NEWS SERVICE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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