The Government asks the Prosecutor’s Office to paralyze the Toro de la Vega and asks for precautionary measures

The General Directorate for Animal Rights considers that the celebration is a crime of “animal abuse” The event is scheduled for next September 13 ANPBA has submitted a letter requesting that the celebration of 1966 be returned to when the animal was not harmed Only A few days before the event is held, the Toro de la Vega creates controversy again. The Ministry of Social Rights has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to adopt measures to paralyze the tournament scheduled for next day 13 in Tordesillas (Valladolid) on the understanding that according to its new regulatory bases it could lead to a crime of animal abuse. in a brief presented this Thursday at the Environment Prosecutor’s Office by the Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda, Lilith Verstrynge, and the General Director of Animal Rights, Sergio García Torres. The General Directorate of Animal Rights urges the Prosecutor’s Office to establish precautionary measures for the non-authorization of the tournament next Tuesday, September 13. It alleges that its new bases contravene the Regulation of Popular Bullfighting Shows of Castilla y León since, although it is already prohibited to kill the animal in public, they allow nailing them harpoons with punches, which he estimates also represents a crime of animal abuse. Precisely this Wednesday the Junta de Castilla y Le ón ruled out repealing the decree law approved in 2016 that prohibits the public killing of fighting cattle in this type of popular celebration. In this way, the Board tried to close the debate generated after Vox presented a motion in the town hall of Tordesillas (Valladolid), the municipality that hosts this celebration, to recover the original format of the Toro de la Vega in which it was He speared the animal until his death. Let the 1966 celebration return. The National Association for the Protection and Welfare of Animals (ANPBA) has presented, for its part, in the Electronic Registry of the City Council of Tordesillas (Valladolid), a letter in which it requests a ” total humanization” of the ‘Toro de la Vega’, returning to the “format” that the municipal Festival Commission itself proposed to the provincial authority of the time in 1966, so that the bull would not suffer “any injury, blows or wounds” .With your letter, ANPBA attaches this document that the Government Delegation in Castilla y León sent to the animal protection entity in the year 2000, since the current format, with the use of “cutting and hurtful currencies”, is a way to “less evolved” than that of the ‘Toro de la Vega’ of 1966, in which there would be “no injury or wound”. To demonstrate that the evolution of the ‘Toro de la Vega’ celebration is possible, to its ideal and complete “humanization” in which there is “no injury or wound”, ANPBA has recalled, in its letter to the City Council, the “brutal” history of animal abuse associated with this celebration. One of those “brutalities” consisted of harassing the bull in the square, stabbing him with several pairs of fire banderillas, before taking him to the Zapardiel meadow to kill him with spears, according to the historical documents that the Junta de Castilla y León has sent to ANPBA. Thus, the association includes in its letter the letter from the mayor of Tordesillas to a contractor, in 1949, in which he reminds him of the “unavoidable obligation” to put fire flags on the bull of La Vega. In this sense, ANPBA has recalled that the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL), in its judgment of April 30 l of 2018 regarding the ‘Toro de la Vega’, highlights the social change that has taken place in the treatment that animals must receive that “makes it unthinkable” to return to old ways “that social sensitivity can reject”. Therefore, at the time of request ANPBA that Tordesillas “adopt the definitive humanization” of the celebration, so that it is protected by not allowing injuries, blows or wounds to be inflicted on it, thus eliminating sharp and hurtful badges, it has also requested that the City Council of Tordesillas promote the creation of a ‘Toro de la Vega Nature Reserve’ in which the animals used, not being sacrificed after their use in this event, are kept in the middle of nature so that they can be contemplated by permanent ecological tourism.