(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Tens of thousands of people rallied in Madrid yesterday for a nationwide ban on bullfighting in Spain.
Protesters also demanded the removal of all spectacles involving bulls from the national cultural heritage register, the end of the support of such events using taxpayer money and stronger animal protection laws.
More than 40,000 people took part in the demonstration, according to organisers from the activists' group Tauromaquia Es Violencia (TeV; Bullfighting is Violence).
On central Madrid's Puerta del Sol square, around 500 activists broke bullfighter lances that released a cloud of red powder to symbolise the blood of the 20,000 bulls that are killed each year in Spain during events that often have a centuries-long history.
Protesters carried placards with phrases such as, 'Bullfighting: National Disgrace.
'It is backwards that, in the 21st century, animals are still being tortured for fun and that it's being financed with public money, Laura Gonzalo, a spokeswoman for TeV, told the Spanish news agency Europa Press.
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