Massive protest against Toro de la Vega bull torture festival
Monday, September 15, 2014 @ 2:49 PM
AN ESTIMATED total of 45,000 protesters gathered in Madrid last night to call for a bloodthirsty annual bull festival to be banned.
The Toro de la Vega takes place in Tordesillas (Valladolid province, north of Madrid) every September and involves live bulls being surrounded and stabbed with lances.
Demonstrators marched through the central C/ Colón, Madrid's main shopping street, as far as the PP government's headquarters, where they all symbolically broke a lance in half.
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