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
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