8 Nov, 2024 @ 09:00
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‘Go to hell!’ Outrage in Spain over ‘charity bullfights’ that will raise money for DANA flood victims – as one poster is branded ‘insulting’

A STRING of charity bullfights that will raise money for victims of the deadly DANA floods in Spain have received backlash online.

It comes after a poster advertising one of the events was branded ‘insulting’ and in ‘dubious taste’ by social media users.

The poster shows a row of five matadors in their full regalia looking at piles of destroyed cars from the many wreckages in Valencia.

The imagery was designed to promote two bullfights at the La Misericordia bullring in Zaragoza.

Both fights will see proceeds go to victims of the DANA disaster, with many identical events planned across Spain, including in Valencia and Andalucia.

One X user wrote of the poster: “It borders on insulting to the entire Valencian people… it is NOT AT ALL appropriate.”

Another said: “The image is in dubious taste in my opinion,” while journalist Rosa Maria Artal added: “How embarrassing! My Aragon is not like that!”

Another local fumed at the idea of killing bulls to help raise money for flood victims – many of whom have just experienced the death of loved ones.

They wrote: “They have no choice but to do a charitable act with torture and blood?

“Seriously, I don’t know who organises these but they can go to hell, no shame, disgusting.”

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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