Peter Janssen broke late on Thursday the arena of Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, while stemmed a run of bulls. The Great Race Lives / Morning Post was interrupted by moments when the activist jumped into the arena, bare-chested, displaying chest the message “Stop the torture” and the back “Respect for animals.” The episode occurred around 23h, the interval period. The Dutch activist was arrested and was then released, he confirmed the PSP Publico.
“He was being pushed and apparently the target of attacks by a group of people that was there “confirmed the PUBLIC the intendant Hugo Palma, the PSP. “When police officers arrived at the scene, they tried to protect him,” but the police can not identify the alleged perpetrators.
The promoter of the event filed a complaint against Janssen, which led to his arrest by PSP Lisbon. The activist of 31 years was then released under notification, and accompanied by the authorities to the Hospital of Santa Maria, which was received at about 00:30. According to PSP, Janssen had “minor abrasions and bruises” fruit of aggression.
The Vegan Strike Group, group that Janssen belongs, said on his Facebook page that the activist spent the night in the hospital, where conducted a CT scan and X-rays. “Shortly after, he left the hospital and was conducted by the PSP to the detention rooms of Lisbon Command” confirmed Hugo Palma.
Several citizens present on the night of Thursday in the race or outside the square bulls denounced the violence that has targeted the Dutch, allegedly by aficionados and supporters of bullfighting tradition. Janssen will have been beaten out of the arena by several people unhappy with their entry into the enclosure, with reports of physical harm – punches and kicks – and several insults. In a video recorded by viewers hear several times the phrase “go away, O clown”. The activist the left of accompanied arena, according to PSP by two agents.
Despite the complaints of several witnesses that the attacks were made in the face of political forces, Hugo Palma makes sure that everything was done to protect the activist.
As it has done in other bullrings in several countries, Peter Janssen took the bullfighting event to manifest to a peaceful invasion of animal rights and ask for the end of bullfighting. Last week, on 27 May, the activist broke into this same way the bullring in Cordoba, Spain. The Dutch belongs to Vegan Strike Group, an advocacy group for the rights of animals and known for protests like Lisbon, although this was the first time I acted in Portugal.
The Vegan Strike Group Group condemned the attacks, saying they came from people who admire a show “sadistic and bloodthirsty.” The event was attended by Pablo Hermoso Knights Mendoza, João Moura Júnior and Lea Vicens, alongside amateurs pitchforks groups of Coruche and Alcochete.
This incident happened on the same day that the Portuguese Parliament chumbou proposals the PAN, the Left Bloc and the Greens to prohibit the participation of minors in bullfights and allow them to only be bullfighters who has compulsory education. The diplomas were leaded by the parliamentary groups of the PSD, CDS, PCP and the majority of PS deputies.
As for this Saturday is marked a new manifestation of the anti-bullfighting activists near the Campo Pequeno. The March for the Abolition of the Stockyards is held for the first time in the Portuguese capital after having passed through several cities, including Paris, Berlin and Delhi. To anticipate the march, the Abolition Movement Slaughterhouses Portugal organized 30 initiatives in five Portuguese cities – Almada, Braga, Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto – which ends on Friday, in Gaia, with a popular dinner vegan and the documentary Live and Let Live , Marc Pierschel.
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