«I shit on your dead, shitheads, if I catch you in Almazora I’ll pluck out your eyes», «if you don’t like it, you eat shit, it’s our traditions, sons of bitches». These are some of the threats received by the Partido Animalista PACMA as a result of the publication of images of an embolado bull that suffered an accident last weekend at the bullfights in the Castellón town of Almazora, lying on the ground until it was withdrawn.
According to reports from the political formation, attendees to the event would have given the notice and shared a video in which the animal is seen lying on the ground with its antlers still on fire, presumably in agony after having fractured its spine when hitting itself minutes after releases it.
PACMA shared the images received and a video published by a local newspaper. In the recording you can hear how one of those present threatens the person recording, saying “you put your phone away, eh” and several people stand in front of the animal to prevent what happened on camera from being seen.
The political formation affirms that “it is neither the first nor will it be the last time” that they receive explicit death threats for publicly denouncing the mistreatment of bullfighting or hunting. They point out that it is “very frequent” to receive videos, audios and innumerable comments from users who, behind the anonymity provided by social networks, dare to confront them.
“When the violence, the adrenaline and the alcohol that abounds in these events are combined, the result is people totally out of their minds,” they explain from the animalist political formation.
“We fight against bullfighting, mainly because of the explicit animal abuse it entails, but we know that it also carries important social problems, just as it happens with hunting.” From PACMA they claim to be aware of the consequences of fighting against animal abuse in Spain, but to be determined to continue with their work: «we denounce and make known the brutalities that occur in our country with animals and the environment, and point out those who they promote and finance them although many do not like it. It is part of our work and a decisive step to bring about the social changes that we are seeing.”
