Unbelievable! Spanish festival bull wails in horror as burning torches are fastened to its horns.
18 August, Museros, Valencia
Attendants set the bull’s horns on fire, forcing it to moan.
Locals try to avoid the bull as it smashes through the town’s roads, but the flames make the beast more hazardous.
Spanish animalists called for an end to the ‘abuse’
Spain holds 17,000 bullfights annually.
During a bull running fiesta in Spain, a bull is tied to a post with a rope while burning torches are attached to its horns.
The distressing clip was captured on August 18 in Museros, Valencia, as event organizers lashed a bull to a post and ignited its horns on fire.
Attendants light torches, prompting the animal to moan in fear and rage, before releasing it to goad festivalgoers.
The photographs were revealed Friday by Spain’s PACMA, which fights to eliminate the barbaric practice.
Toro embolado, or ‘bull with balls,’ is a sight seen in many Spanish cities during bull running events.
Locals try to avoid the bull as it smashes through the town’s roads, but the flames make the beast more hazardous.
A man with a knife stands close to a bull with flaming horns in Museros, Spain. PACMA called the bullfight animal torture.
Attendants light torches and attach them to the bull’s horns, frightening it.
A ‘toro embolado’, or ‘bull with balls,’ can be seen in many Spanish cities during bull racing events.
A PACMA representative said: ‘The PACMA Animalist Party posted a film that may hurt many people’s sensitivities, but not because of physical violence.
As it leaves its enclosure, dozens of men surround it and pounce on it to tether it to the post where the devices will be installed on its horns.
According to veterinary research, it’s a’situation cattle experience with extraordinary sensitivity’ that amounts to’real suffering’
The party stated approximately 17,000 events a year in Spain abuse bulls, with Valencia having the most.
Over 300 municipalities in Valencia commemorate this type of festival, and seven people have perished so far this year.
This was the deadliest year on record, tied with 2015.
PACMA strives to expose what bullfighting fans and businesspeople prefer to hide: bullfighting’s crudest side.
The party says the practice “warps” Spanish society and “brings out the worst in people.”
They plan a September protest in Madrid to advocate for a bullfighting ban in Spain, saying a petition has over 60,000 signatures.
The party stated approximately 17,000 events a year in Spain abuse bulls, with Valencia having the most.
18 August in Museros, Spain, participants encircle a tied-up bull.
The disturbing image was revealed days after a flaming bull killed a young man in Valencia.
Adrian Martinez Fernandez, 24, was mauled by a wild animal in Vallada on August 21.
The animal, whose horns were lit for the celebration, turned on Fernandez and gored him as scared festivalgoers watched in disbelief.
The 24-year-old from Almansa was transported to the hospital as a precaution with no evident injuries.
The attack destroyed his spleen and caused other internal damage, so doctors couldn’t save him.
Due to the young man’s death, the City Council canceled a bullfighting night and another set for Monday.
Adrian Martinez Fernandez, 24, is destroyed by the burning beast in Vallada, Spain.
The attack ruptured the young man’s spleen and caused additional internal damage, killing him.
After trampled and mauled Fernandez, the bull went down the street.
After learning of Fernandez’s death, neighbors conducted a minute of silence in the Plaza.
The municipality expressed’regret and sympathy’ to the 24-year-family old’s and friends.
Vallada celebrated San Bertomeu, Santsimo Cristo del Monte Calvario, and Virgen de Gracia.
A week of celebrations ended Sunday.
Locals cheered the festival’s return after two years of COVID-19.
Several people have died and dozens have been injured in bull running competitions in Spain this year after the contentious sport returned from the plague.