Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Spanish festival celebrates slow, painful killing of bull - Guardian (UK)
Pursued across open countryside, jabbed at with spears and finally stabbed to death by a man wielding a lance, the bull called Enrejado died a long, frightening and sadistic death in front of an eager crowd at Tordesillas, northern Spain.
Pictures of the wounded, blood-drenched animal being stabbed were published on the front page of El País, Spain's biggest selling daily newspaper, as it denounced the primitive, medieval spectacle. ...
Pursued across open countryside, jabbed at with spears and finally stabbed to death by a man wielding a lance, the bull called Enrejado died a long, frightening and sadistic death in front of an eager crowd at Tordesillas, northern Spain.
Pictures of the wounded, blood-drenched animal being stabbed were published on the front page of El País, Spain's biggest selling daily newspaper, as it denounced the primitive, medieval spectacle. ...
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