The celebration of a bullfighting workshop, for bullfighting, for schoolchildren last April in the Plaza de la Maestranza in Seville has caused concerns onwards Andalusia, which has registered a BATTERY OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE AUTONOMIC Parliament addressed to the Andalusian government, which presides Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla (Pp). To the classes, according to ahead, primary school students attended, at least one public center and another concerted, which, as such, is funded by the Andalusian government.
“Primary education students and groups of different faculties have been rotating in a workshop that, with an hour of approximate duration, showed them the different suertes of bullfighting: cape, crutch, flags and luck of chopping, the latter performs on the back of two horses […] perfectly pertrechados “, collects the website of the square in an entrance entitled The Bullfighting Workshop for Schools Bate Record with more than 1,200 participants. In that text, it is stated that the activity has completed ten editions.
Among the questions he has presented in Parliament are these: “Does the activity have a complementary character or is it extracurricular?; Has the delegation authorized the activity? What public resources have been allocated to this activity?” Public He went to the Board and He raised the denunciation from the frontbut I had not obtained an answer at the time of publication of this information.
“This is doubly serious, because Minors should not attend an event that is violent and in which animal abuse is encouragedas is bullfighting, while with public money you cannot finance bullfighting workshops for children, “the person responsible for the organization of Adelante Andalucía told a press conference, Néstor Salvador.
“It is curious that the right, who complains that there is sex education in schools and says that it is a form of indoctrination, now worries so that children have Bullfighting in your school time“Salvador added.
The platform It is not my culturemade up of several animalist associations, presented 715,606 signatures in Congress so that bullfighting ceases to be cultural heritage. In early April, the Electoral Census Office validated 664,777, so it exceeded the 500,000 necessary support.
Minors in runs
The debate on the presence of minors in bullfights, raised it recently by Andalusia, which he proposed modify three articles of the Public Show Law of the Autonomous Community to prohibit the presence of children under 18 in bullfights.
The initiative intends that the autonomous law collects: “People under 18 are prohibited from assisting bullfights when bullfighting shows are held.”
In Andalusia there are, according to the data of the regional executive, more than 20 bullfighting schoolsto which the Board has been financing with hundreds of thousands of euros. They can point anyone, with authorization of their parents, starting at 10 years.
According to the definition collected in the decree that regulates them, they are “institutions” that have “for the specific purpose the learning of bullfighting future professionals, as well as their technical and artistic improvement.”
The UN, through the Committee on the Rights of the Child, points out for Andalusia, “has been expressly spoken against children participating and attending bullfighting events.” This is what it does in a 2018 report in which the following is expressed: “To prevent the harmful effects for children in the bull show, the Committee recommends that the State Party The participation of children under 18 as bullfighters and as a public prohibits in bullfighting shows. “
