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42 wounded bullfights in Pamplona
PAMPLONA. 42 people were injured during the traditional Pamplona lash this year.
At the San Fermin festival which lasts several days, bulls are driven daily through the historic center of Pamplona up to the arena.
A total of 42 runners came to the hospital during this year's bullfight in Pamplona, northern Spain. Two of them had been caught by bulls fighting on the horns, the other 40 should have been treated mostly for bruises, the press agency Europa Press reported on Sunday.
The eighth and last bullshit of the Sanfermines traditional hospitalized festival, said the Red Cross. There were particularly anxious moments at the end of the show, when a Frenchman was caught by a bull on a sling and was dragged several meters. The 27-year-old man and the six other wounded were all transported to hospitals
. Bullfights in Pamplona have been relatively mild this year. Both participants at the skewer did not suffer serious injuries. A 38-year-old Spaniard who was injured in the first run and a butt run the week before and suffered a six-centimeter injury was released from the hospital on Friday. Friday, a 19-year-old Spaniard was skewered on his left armpit
Every year, six 600-pound fighting bulls and several lead oxen of several hundred men and a handful of women are killed in Pamplona during eight days each morning. the bullfights in the evening through the narrow streets in the hunted arena. Participants traditionally wear white shirts and red scarves. Dozens of injured riders on the 875 meter track are injured every year. The last death occurred in 2009.
The Stierhatz is broadcast live daily on Spanish television and then discussed by experts. Among other things, it is the speed of animals. The fastest race lasted only two minutes and twelve seconds in 2018, the two slowest minutes and 56 seconds, he said.
Animal rights advocates do not care about runners but bulls killed in the arena. Again this year, activists protested the event, which is now also controversial in Spain. It is hoped that the public money spent on bullfighting and fighting "will promote positive values and not the pleasure of seeing animals tortured to death," said Aida Gascon, president of AnimaNaturalis Spain. Nearly 190,000 people supported a group petition to end bullfighting in Spain before the weekend.
Still, the festival continues to attract thousands of tourists from around the world, including Europe, Australia and the United States. About Pamplona wrote the American writer Ernest Hemingway in his first major novel "Fiesta" (1926).
16 dead since the year 1910
Again and again people are injured or even killed. Since 1910, 16 participants have died in the Stierhatz, the last death occurred so far in 2009. The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year from Germany and abroad.
The festival was this year under the slogan "City without sexual aggression". The context is a massive protest against the recent release of five alleged sex offenders. The men of Seville, who called themselves "La Manada", were sentenced to nine years in prison only in April for abusing an 18 year old at the San Fermin Festival in the summer of 2016.
Since then, they have been in detention. The prosecutor appealed the verdict. Before the Judgment of Appeal, Men Should Stay Free
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