Against bullfighting, cyclists from “Bike for animals” stop in Alès

Les militants, partis de Turin le 13 août, lors de leur arrivée place de l’Hôtel de ville d’Alès. Midi Libre – STEPHANE BARBIER

Ils sont cinq cyclistes, partis de Turin le 13 août pour un périple de 2 700 km à destination de Madrid, arrivée prévue le 30, afin de dire leur opposition à la corrida.

On Wednesday, August 14, after 195 km of driving, the group “Bike for animals” stopped in Alès, welcomed by Gérard Saba, an animal rights activist. An inevitable stopover town for the collective since “Alès is a bullfighting town, and as long as there are bullfights, there will be actions. But a fight that is always non-violent " assumes the retiree providing accommodation for the team leaving for Nîmes and Lunel this Thursday, August 15.

The long distance of this demonstration is proportional to the violence done to animals during bullfighting

On the terrace of the bar of the Hôtel de Ville, at the foot of the town hall, the Italian Paolo Barbon, 57 years old, shows a commitment that can be read on his face: “The long distance of this demonstration is proportional to the violence done to animals during bullfighting” he concludes, determined. If bullfighting is not present on Italian territory, bullfights form the object of criticism from this activist assured that “bullfighting will disappear, it is only a question of time ! " A procession that will be joined later by the European president of the radically anti-bullfighting committee (CRAC), Cyril Vaucelle, not on a bike, but installed in the assistance vehicle, in order to symbolize French support for the action of the Spanish activists.

Locally, Gérard Saba points out with concern ” the development of “fiesta campera”, in Camargue, with killing ” while emphasizing the political weight of two parties ” LFI and the ecologists ” clearly opposed to bullfighting.

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