These images were filmed by an infiltrated team of AnimaNaturalis for our campaign against cruel parties with animals, with CAS International. With the recovery of normality and the end of some restrictions of the pandemic, these shows are emerging with force in the towns from Spain.
We must act now to avoid returning to the levels of 2019, when more than 2,500 bulls were struck with fire each year throughout the country.
In Catalonia, around thirty municipalities organize this type of bullfighting festivities based on abuse, mistreatment and cruelty towards bulls, heifers and young calves, although the area of greatest activity and popular roots includes the provinces of Castellón and Valencia in the Community Valenciana, and some neighboring towns with the previous ones in the province of Teruel and Zaragoza.
Emboladores contests are events in which different teams light the horns of 6 bulls with fire on the same night. The team that manages to place the lit balls the fastest, receives a cash prize. When money is at stake, nerves and the need to win at all costs often surface. Often, they make mistakes that add more anguish to the animal, which ends up being immobilized by the head for a longer time, or becomes entangled with the rope and suffers painful falls, between screams, shoves, blows and brutal rope pulls.
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