The celebration of the Feria del Angel, in Teruel (Aragon, Spain), was interrupted suddenly on Saturday when the bull “Lorenzo” lambasted the bullfighter 29 Victor Barrio.
a fatal goring that aired on national television made Barrio happened to the history of bullfighting as the first matador fallen in a run so far this century.
31 years ago, the bullfighter Jose Cubero Yiyo ran the same fate.
In the past century, 134 people , including 33 murderers, were killed bulls in Spain, the newspaper El Pais.
“Lorenzo” bull will he sacrificed, according to reports.
in addition to the incident Barrio, on Saturday also killed a man be gored by a bull during a confinement in the town of Pedreguer, near Valencia.
“distressed and very concerned”
taurine community in the country, fans and even the head of the Spanish government, Mariano Rajoy, expressed their condolences through social network Twitter.
“saddened and very affected. he Rest in peace Victor Quarter. All of us in this team send our condolences to family and friends,” was the message from the Las Ventas square in Madrid, where Barrio began his career in 2012.
despite being late to bullfighting, Segovia rose rapidly and won several awards such as the Best Novillero Santander and Bilbao.
“always he had felt a great admiration for bullfighters and the party, but I was even ashamed to say I wanted to be a bullfighter and a hero as I saw them, “he told the newspaper El Pais.
Accidents
last year, the matador Francisco Rivera Ordonez was seriously wounded in a bullfight in Huesca, in northeastern Spain.
About 2,000 bullfights held each year in Spain, but the numbers have fallen.
In 2010 , Catalonia became the Canary Islands after the second region to ban the tradition.
His opponents describe the runs as “barbaric” while his followers, as Prime Minister Rajoy, defend the tradition as an art that makes up the country’s history.
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