Crisis between the Beaucaire arenas and bullfighting professionals: a never-ending war

Le toro, la tauromachie et les aficionados subissent la crise entre organisateurs et professionnels taurins. Midi Libre

Every day a press release is published by the organizers or representatives of French and Spanish professionals. This Thursday, it is the turn of Thierry Cazaubon, in charge of organizing the Feria for the Beaucaire bullfighting association, who responds and threatens the associations of bullfighters and cuadrillas.

The summer saga never seems to end between the organizers of the Beaucaire Feria and the associations of French and Spanish bullfighters and subordinates.

In this real collective suicide, the aficionados would almost forget that two novilladas will be organized Saturday and Sunday in Beaucaire with this flood of press releases that has become daily.

Bullfighting is the only loser in this crisis

Faced with their inability to dialogue and sit down around a table, this crisis, which is getting worse every day, has only one loser: bullfighting.

While bullfighting is riding the wave caused by the aborted plan to ban bullfighting in the fall of 2022 thanks to the union of the entire bullfighting ecosystem, the efforts made over the past two years are being reduced to nothing. Because this series of press releases will have consequences in the short and medium term.

A very damaging situation when the arenas showed an increase in attendance of more than 20% last year, the first ferias (Arles, Nîmes, Alès, Istres) benefited from a craze unknown since the 90s and arenas like Lunel or Mauguio realized "no hay billetes" unimaginable on the eve of Covid.

This Thursday, it is the turn of Thierry Cazaubon, mandated by the Beaucairoise bullfighting association to build its feria, who responds to the latest press release from French and Spanish professionals. By delivering his version of the facts and threatening to take legal action on their communication from the day before.