Correspondent in Madrid
When, in 2007, he began to collect signatures with his fellow activists, Leonardo Anselmi was not really convinced that their initiative would succeed.
“We were even quite pessimistic,
recognizes, fifteen years later, the former spokesperson for the animalist movement Prou!
(“Enough!”, in Catalan)
.
But our duty was to try.”
Finally, on July 28, 2010, the Catalan regional parliament, seized by this citizens' petition, voted for the total ban on bullfighting in the autonomous community, by 68 votes for, 55 votes against and 9 abstentions.
When leaving his native Colombia to continue his studies, Nicolás Sampedro had chosen, in 2003, to settle in the Catalan capital, among other reasons to be able to go every Sunday of the season to the Monumental, the bullring of Barcelona .
"Aficionado since always",
and even, in adolescence, novillero - apprentice torero on young bulls -, he did not imagine, he did not...
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