The bill which aimed to ban bullfighting for minors under 16 was largely rejected by the upper house.
A text carried by centrist senator Samantha Cazebonne, co-signed by around forty elected officials from several groups, aiming to ban “bullfighting and cockfighting in the presence of minors under sixteen years of age”and pursuing the objective of “protect minors from exposure to violence”was discussed in the Senate this Thursday. It was ultimately rejected by a very large majority of senators.
Indeed, the two amendments tabled by the senator from Hérault Jean-Pierre Grand, requesting the deletion of the two articles of this bill, were adopted, one by 254 votes to 55, the other by 237 votes. against 64. To the great satisfaction of the elected official, according to whom it was “an anti-bullfight, anti-traditions text”.
Texts widely rejected
Satisfaction also from Laurent Burgoa, senator Les Républicains du Gard: “It’s a good thing, it was important that this text did not come out of the Senate. And the votes against this text were transpartisan, which is very important.”
“It is no longer acceptable that bullfighting, whose only legal justification is to be an uninterrupted tradition, escapes all the moral and legal prerogatives of child protection” had estimated the environmentalist senator from Rhône Raymonde Poncet Monge during the debates.
