GERMANY: ABOUT FIFTY PROTESTERS BOARD BUS FOR PAMPLONA AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST BULL FIGHTING

Record ID: 584898

  • Title: GERMANY: ABOUT FIFTY PROTESTERS BOARD BUS FOR PAMPLONA AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST BULL FIGHTING
  • Date: 5th July 2004
  • Summary: (EU) STUTTGART, GERMANY (JULY 3, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SIGN IN GERMAN SAYING "JOIN THE HUMAN RACE" PAN TO ACTIVISTS 0.07 2. ACTIVISTS IN OFFICE; SCU SIGN READING "STOP KTHE BLOODY BULLFIGHT" 0.41 3. ACTIVISTS LEAVING OFFICE 4. SEMI-NAKED ACTIVISTS LEAVING BUILDING TO BUS 5. MAN WITH BULL HEAD LEADING THE PARADE OF PEOPLE 6. ACTIVISTS PUTTING LUGGAGE INTO BUS 7. NAKED ACTIVISTS BOARDING BUS 8. EXTERIOR OF BUS 9. FOUR MEN HOLDING PROTEST BANNER IN FRONT OF BUS 2.09 10. VARIOUS VIEWS OF DEMONSTRATORS POSING BEFORE BUS LEAVES 11. WOMAN HOLDING SIGN THAT SAYS 'STOP THE BLOODY BULLFIGHT' 2.23 12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JUERGEN FAULMANN, PETA SPOKESPERSON, SAYING "The bullfight is not really a fight. The bulls are coming into the bullring and the fighters are treating them very bad, with knives and they mock them and they put Vaseline in their eyes so they can't see anything, and they are really starving very slowly and very harmfully." 2.50 13. MORE PROTESTERS BOARDING THE BUS 2.58 14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JUERGEN FAULMANN, PETA SPOKESPERSON, SAYING "The human race, the runing of the nudes, will be a new tradition and we want to do it because it's very effective if everyone sees us and sees that it's a very funny and happy, new... 3.26 14. VARIOUS VIEWS BUS LEAVING 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th July 2004 13:00
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  • Location: STUTTGART, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA9UIY7TYQGH0UOOGQOOH9V7YM1
  • Story Text: ABOUT FIFTY PROTESTERS HAVE BOARDED A BUS FOR PAMPLONA AS PART
    OF AN INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST BULL FIGHTING
    The protesters who left from PETA Germany headquarters in Stuttgart on
    Saturday (July 3, 2004) will arrive in Pamplona on Sunday (July 4) along with PETA
    (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activists from across Europe and
    will hold the "Running of the Nudes" on Monday (July 6) before the annual
    Fiesta de San Fermin begins in Pamplona.

    The Fiesta was made famous by Ernest Hemingway, who wrote about it in his
    1927 novel "The Sun Also Rises".

    Every morning at 8am local time up to 12 bulls are released from a pen and
    run through the cobblestoned streets of the city to the bullring. Traditionally
    the men, in all white with red handkerchiefs around their necks, run ahead of
    the bulls, testing their bravery against the animals chasing them. The bulls
    play a leading role in the afternoon, when Torreros fight them in the bull
    ring, and they are, eventually, slaughtered.

    The fiesta attracts thousands of tourists into the city every year, to
    watch the morning running of the bulls, which takes about 10 minutes, and
    celebrate a 9-day-long party.

    PETA spokesman Juergen Faulmann said the group is trying to establish a new
    tradition without subjecting the bulls to cruelty, and which will continue to
    attract tourists and their cash into the city.

    "This human race, the runing of the nudes, will be a new tradition and we
    want to do it because it's very effective if everyone sees us and sees that its
    a very funny and happy, new tradition so that everyone can join us and do a new
    tourist attraction, to show the mayor of Pamplona you can also have a tourist
    attraction and bring tourists to Pamplona without cruelty," he said.

    About 200 protesters are scheduled to participate in the event, which is
    being held for the third time, Faulmann said.


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