Animal rights activists have been left outraged after a bullfighting event in Mallorca boasted about selling out of children’s tickets.
The Plaza de Toros in Inca is set to hold a major bullfight on Sunday, August 3, featuring famed matadors Andy Cartagena, Antonio Ferrera and Borja Jimenez.
The event, which begins at 7.30pm, will see multiple bulls killed in front of cheering spectators – including at least 100 children.
British expat Chris Halsey, 46, is one of the hundreds expected to turn out to protest the bullfight on Sunday, with demonstrators urged to gather outside the bullring from 6.30pm.
‘It’s crazy, this is just wrong that children are being allowed in,’ he told the Spanish Eye today, branding the event ‘sickening’.
He added: ‘Anyone is welcome to join the protest, we want as many people as possible to help us send a message.
‘We can’t believe that in the 21st century this stuff is still going on.’
The Plaza de Toros bullring said in an Instagram post this week that all of its children’s tickets were sold out, writing: ‘We expected nothing less… It already happened at the last bullfight in Inca!
‘The children and young people took over the stands, and this time it wasn’t going to be any different.’
The protest on Sunday is being organised by a group of animal activist organisations, including the British-run Mallorca Against Bullfighting and PETA.
Bullfighting was effectively made legal again in Mallorca in December 2018, after the Spanish Constitutional Court overturned a regional law that had partially banned the practice.
This law, enacted in 2017, had prohibited killing or injuring the bull and the use of horses, but the court deemed these restrictions unconstitutional.
Meanwhile, a similar ban on children attending bullfighting events was overturned in 2024.
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