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Guardia Civil gives trainee officers bullfighting classes

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There is uproar today after it was revealed that 250 Guardia Civil trainee officers were given a course on bullfighting as part of their training in Jaén this week. One of their teachers swapped the police tricorn hat for a bullfighters cap and cape, to show students how to properly torture a cow to death. The students were not impressed, with a number of videos making their way onto the internet and a complaint being Continue reading Guardia Civil gives trainee officers bullfighting classes→

San Sebastian refuses bullfighting from 2013

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The city of San Sebastian, under the nationalist Bildu mayor Juan Karlos Izagirre, has announced that it will refuse all license permits for bullfighting events in the city as from next year. The nationalist group Bildu has said, and Juan Karlos (note the K) agrees, that it is 100% anti-bullfighting and looks forwards to the day that it is finally dropped across Spain, and that next years “la Semana Grande” of San Sebastian will be, Continue reading San Sebastian refuses bullfighting from 2013→

Anti bullfighting rally in Almeria

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Ecologistas en Accion are organising an anti-bullfighting antitaurina rally in Almeria on the 23rd (Thursday). Instructions are that it is to be peaceful, yet noisy. Meeting at the corner of Calle Enrique Granados with Calle Amadeo Vives and then through the centre. Traffic is not to be disrupted, and permissions have been granted, etc etc etc. Press release follows: