Bullfighting not part of Catalan's cultural heritage

The Catalan parliament will decide today, Wednesday, whether to ban bullfights in the autonomous Spanish region. Everything points to an end to the Corrida in Catalonia, writes the liberal daily Pražský deník: "This is a dispute in which everyone is right. Of course the bullfight is an old Spanish tradition. And of course it constitutes cruelty to animals, which is considered barbaric in Europe. This is all reminiscent of the passionate British debate on fox hunting. ... Wouldn't it be a shame for the corrida to disappear altogether? Paradoxically what it has going for it is that the person in the arena is not automatically the winner. In this life-and-death struggle the animal sometimes comes out on top. The wounded and killed toreros are proof that this conflict is honourable and that the bull's chances are far better here than in the slaughterhouse. ... But it is also about politics. Barcelona wants to show the world that it is different from Madrid, where bullfights have been designated part of the cultural heritage."

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