The Pacma achieves in the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León what the Ministry of Social Rights has not achieved before the Environment Prosecutor’s Office
The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León has decided the precautionary suspension of the celebration of the Toro de Vega, which was scheduled for next Tuesday. In this way, he accesses the request made by the Pacma (Animalist Party Against Animal Abuse).
Justice has suspended the new regulatory bases prepared by the City Council of Tordesillas for the development of the celebration. The judicial resolution also suspends the Order with which the Government of Castilla y León gave its consent to the adaptation of municipal regulations to the provisions of the Decree-Law of 2016 that prohibited the death of animals in the presence of the public during the development of popular bullfighting shows.
What the PACMA has achieved, the Government has not achieved. The Environmental Prosecutor’s Office also ruled this Friday stating that there are no “indications of the commission of any crime” in the celebration of the Toro de la Vega Tournament. This was indicated in an Official Letter sent to the General Director of Animal Rights, Sergio García Torres, the Prosecutor of the Environment Chamber, Antonio Vercher.
In this way, the Prosecutor’s Office archived the open proceedings after receiving this Thursday a letter from the Ministry of Social Rights that urged it to adopt precautionary measures that would prevent the celebration of the Toro de la Vega in Tordesillas (Valladolid) next Tuesday.
The complaint sent by the Government yesterday morning asked the Prosecutor’s Office to act preventively in the face of a “possible crime” of animal abuse. Likewise, he argued that this celebration violates the Regulation of Popular Bullfighting Shows of the Community of Castilla y León, which states that in all popular bullfighting shows it is prohibited to injure cattle.
The Prosecutor’s Office, in its reply, is contrary to Social Rights: it ensures that there is “an autonomous legal basis that allows the present situation” and that it is “to which the way of celebrating this type of celebration has been adapted.” It also recalls that it had already ruled to the same effect in similar petitions made in 2007 and 2015.
Since 2016, the bull has not been killed in public during the tournament. And this year the City Council has regulated the characteristics of the sharp elements that can be used against the bull and how many times. But Social Rights alleged in its petition that these instruments continued to be devices designed to be nailed to the animal “directly contravening regional regulations.”
The Prosecutor’s Office also establishes that the decision is made “without prejudice to the analysis of the specific adjustment to the administrative legality” of the Order approved on July 5 that declares the conformity of the adaptation of the Toro de la Vega bases to the regional regulations , an issue that “would correspond to the contentious-administrative jurisdiction and not to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.”
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