17 Feb, 2020 @ 12:13
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WATCH: Man arrested as dead and injured roosters found in police raid on cockfight watched by 200 people in Spain’s Andalucia

Cockfight

FOUR dead and eight seriously injured roosters have been discovered by police while raiding a cockfight in Cadiz.

Video shows row upon row of boxes, each one containing a cockerel destined to be fought to satisfy the bloodlust and gambling habit of around 197 people at the cockpit in El Puerto de Santa Maria.

Police say they also found drugs that were to be fed to the roosters to make them more energetic and give them stamina.

Officers said large sums of money are often gambled on these ‘clandestine’ fights.

BLOODSPORT: Police launch huge raid on cockfight in Cadiz

Cockfighting is illegal in Spain, with the exception of Andalucia and the Canary Islands.

In these regions gambling on the blood sport is forbidden.

People had come from all over Andalucia and from as far afield as the Balearic Islands to view and take part in the bloody spectacle.

The operation began when police station became aware of a ‘championship’ that was to take place during the weekend of February 8-9.

Suspecting bets would be placed, they raided the cockpit.

The inspection ended with the arrest of a 33-year-old man who was found in possession of counterfeit money.

In addition, 34 reports were made for violations of public safety regulations, the use or possession of drugs in a public place, the carrying of prohibited weapons and disobedience.

The organisers of the event are being investigated for animal abuse.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

1 Comment

  1. What is wrong with these people?!! Oh well, at least they don’t claim this grim pastime as “culture”. Unlike another well-known diversion concerning rather larger animals.

    Location : malaga

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