[www.keralites.net] Horror at Spanish festival where live animals are set on fire: Protesters clash with police in bid to stop cruel tradition

 

Horror at Spanish festival where live animals are set on fire: Protesters clash with police in bid to stop cruel tradition 
 

• The Joy of the Bull - or Toro de Jubilo - is one of the 'cultural' highlights of Medinaceli village, northeast of Madrid
•  Every year a young bull is dragged into a ring before its body is covered with mud to protect it from burns
•  Participants then strap wooden stakes doused in flammable chemicals to its horns, and set it on fire
•  Fiercely hot sparks and embers drip from the burning torches onto the animal as men torment it to prove bravery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fires are lit using paraffin and the three-year-old bull was dragged in on a rope held by many men dressed in grey uniforms

 

 

 

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