AR-News: (France) Protests were held in the Catalan capital

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

MIAMI Barcelona on Tuesday became the first city in Spain to ban bullfighting 
after a large-scale effort by campaigners for animal rights. 
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Protests were held in the Catalan capital as officials voted at city hall. 
Animal rights groups had collected 250,000 signatures from around Europe, which 
they handed in to Barcelona''s city hall last month. The petition was an 
initiative by the World Society for the Protection of Animals and Spanish animal 
rights groups, appalled at the killing of dozens of bulls here each year. While 
the bullfighting tradition remains popular in major Spanish cities, including 
the capital Madrid, it raises relatively scant interest in Catalonia, the 
region covering northeast Spain. 




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http://www.iht.com/articles/513638.htm 
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