The strategic record of the anti-bullfighting is broad to put an end to the bulls without openly recognizing that what they really want is to carry out a cultural censorship. Lately in several bullfighting countries, and in France, the attempt to nip in the bud the transmission of the hobby to new generations has become fashionable, with the assumption of protecting minors from a traumatic spectacle, as if they were no longer there. in fact faced with images of drama and violence on television news and in video games.
That is what the animalist currents wanted to do in the political field by presenting a bill in the French Senate to prohibit the entry of animals. under 16 years old to the bullrings. The Senate’s law committee has just overturned this proposal by a large majority, accepting the common sense arguments presented by the Observatory of bullfighting cultures and for the Union of the bullfighting cities of France (UVTF).
Invoking “the superior right of the child”, and without any scientific study having demonstrated the trauma suffered, or greater phenomena of violence in the French regions of southern bullfighting compared to other regions, this attempted prohibition is actually due to totalitarianism. cultural that does not respect the right to difference and diversity of cultures, as promoted by Unesco conventions.
Likewise, it is attentive to the principle of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which places the responsibility of education in all activities recognized as legal on parents, and considers that family bond, in that legal environment, as the foundation of well-being and the development of minors. Finally, such a prohibition, within the framework of bullfighting tradition, would introduce a unsustainable discrimination, in relation to the traditions maintained in different communities and regions, which involve animal sacrifices (fishing, hunting, Aïd festival…) and in which minors can participate. The right to practice these heritage and religious traditions is guaranteed by European treaties. The bullfighting cities have recalled that they have already applied regulations in this regard, prohibiting the entry of minors unaccompanied by adults and under their guardianship to the bulls.
After all, both Constitutional Councilin 2012, as the Senate Law Commission have endorsed two principles of law that always have to be combined; he principle of equalityand the right to difference, in particular cultural, which the bullfighting regions and cities put into practice, and whose respect they demand.
It is fair to point out, in this very positive decision for bullfighting culture, the excellent coordination carried out before the Senate by the French Observatory of bullfighting cultures and by the Union of bullfighting cities in France. André Viardpresident of the Observatory, has been the axis of said coordination.
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