Laurence Dollimore
A FAMILY is taking legal action against online ‘trolls’ who called for the death of their terminally ill son.
Adrian Hinojosa has always wanted to be a bullfighter, but his dreams were cut short when he was diagnosed with an incurable bone cancer last year.
The bull-fighting world took the eight-year-old boy into their heart and organised a corrida in Valencia, where he was taken into the ring.
They have also begun collecting funds to help research the disease.
But a small faction of anti-bullfighters, or anti-taurinos, disagreed with the move and began calling for the boy’s death on social media.
One user wrote: “Die now, die now, a sick child who wants to be cured to kill innocent and healthy herbivores who also want to live. Anda yaaaaa! Adrian, go die!”
Another added: “I don’t care about his life, and he’s probably being treated in the public system, using my money!”
Bullfighters lent their support to Adrian on social media, using the hashtag #Adriantevasacurar (Adrian you will be cured).
His father says the support and his time in the ring has given Adrian an ‘injection of strength.’
Cruel people trolling the terminally ill child are sociopathic. Their craziness has nothing to do with objecting to the cruelty within the Spanish bull-fighting tradition who, from my experience, respect life.
A few crazy people who also call themselves ‘anti-taurinos’ yet support cruelty to humans do not represent anti-cruelty to animal activists any more than ISIS thugs represent real Islam. Both groups are merely sadists.
Who are the real cynics? Bullbaiting bandwagon jumpers, or, keyboard agents provocateurs? Or both?
Good luck to the nipper, anyway