Date: January 27, 2009
By: ALLIANCE ANTI CORRIDA FR
Dear friends,
Michelito
Lagravère, young bullfighter, only 11,
performed in France on july 5th 2008! He was drawn to
bullfighting since the age of five, he has
killed 65 bulls, and has already scars. But French laws
don’t permit anybody under the age of 16 to perform in a
bullring, so today’s pre-pubescent toreros all come to perform in
Mexico, where there are no such laws. Those baby bullfighters have
begun getting top billing from promoters, who view them as a new
way to bring people to the bullrings! (See the video in Fontvielle
in 2007).
In the summer 2008, the Antibullfighting Alliance,applied to four
public prosecutors and the ministry of justice to have the
bullfights cancelled and succeeded in banning the baby matador
twice, on Aug. 2nd and 3rd. Two other shows given in small
cities turned into capeas (no blood, no injuries for the bulls).
The baby killer should have come back to France to perform on
august 23. 30. and 31. But he gave up…
No blood, no money, no medias means no interest, of course!
To get his name listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the
world’s youngest matador his parents encouraged him to kill
six calves in Mexico, on Jan. 24. A video was even brought to
the attention of Guinness World Records for recognition.
Fortunately, the Guinness will not recognise the result
declaring "we
do not accept records based on the killing or harming of
animals".
Well done the Guiness Book!
You
can react here : http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_GWR-Official-Statement/BLOG/169340/7691.html?widgetId=104141
Let us remember that the Antibullfighting Alliance succedeed in
preventing baby bullfighters under 16 from facing a bull in a
bullring and managed to ban El Juli (on the photo) and
Andy Cartagena from performing from 1995 to 1996. At our
request, the law court fined the organiser of bullfights in Nîmes,
owing to his previous performances
Gratefully
yours
Claire
Starozinski
Founder
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A CHILD IN A BULLRING. . .
Michelito Lagravère, young bullfighter, only 11 years old,
has been performing in France since july 5th 2008 ! He
was drawn to bullfighting since the age of five. Today, Michelito
has killed more than 60 bulls, and has the scars His father, former
torero, exiled him in Mexico.
But French laws don’t permit anybody under the age of 16 to
perform in a bullring, so today’s pre-pubescent toreros all come to
perform in Mexico, where there are no such laws. Those baby
bullfignters have begun getting top billing from promoters, who
view them as a new way to bring people to the bullrings !
Claire Starozinski, founder of the Antibullfighting Alliance,
applied to the public prosecutor of Auch to have the organisers of
the bullfight
prosecuted and the young matador banned. Taking into account her
evidence, the public prosecutor and the ministry of justice decided
to carry out an investigation.
Let us remember that
the Antibullfighting Alliance succedeed in preventing baby
bullfighters under 16 from facing a bull in a bullring and
managed to ban El Juli (on the photo) from performing from 1995 to
1996. At our request, the law court fined the organiser of
bullfights in Nîmes, owing to his previous
performances.
Subject: News from the Antibullfighting Alliance.
Date: July 25, 2008
and more:
AVIGNON
SAYS : " NO ! "
After some visual communication display 4x3 in bullfighting
cities - Nimes, Arles or Carcassonne-, the Antibullfighting
Alliance starts again this year, for the 62nd the Festival of
Avignon (see the photo).
Reminding that 73 %
of the French population is against bullfighting and only 27 % of
the Spanish show interest for bullfights, we intend, with
such a campaign, to make the tourists refuse to attend
bullfights.
France's EU presidency has to understand that a show with an animal
tortured to death in a bullring is not compatible with the values
of brotherhood and progress conveyed by the
european Union
The Antibullfighting Alliance announces a second similar campaign
in August, in a big city of the French Riviera, in order to, once
more, make the tourists and the foreigners aware of the pain
imposed to an animal mutilated and tortured during 15 long minutes,
in a severely violent and barbaric spectacle.
DON'T
FORGET...
Let's
be hundreds to say NO !
in
Nîmes next September
13th. The
Antibullfighting Alliance, together with MPs, personalities and
European associations, is organizing a peaceful demonstration, like
the big demonstrations which took place between 1995 and 2003, to
heighten public awareness just five days before the Grape Harvest
feria.
We have just one
message to get across that day, a simple, clear, uncompromising
message:
«
No more bullfigfhts ! Abolish those barbarian exhibitions !
»
We
will meet in front of the train station at 3PM and the march will
begin at 3:30 PM.
A
lot is at stake. The physical presence of a maximum number of
people that day is essential if we are to make history in the
struggle against bullfights.
Yours
truly
Claire
Starozinski
Founder
Alliance
Anticorrida
B.P. 77023 - 30910 NÎMES cedex 2 - Tél. & fax : 04 66 64 22
97
http://www.allianceanticorrida.fr
