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July 12, 2004

  • Duration: 3:05
  • Livestock: Jandilla
  • Injured: 8 per bull horn

From emotion to drama and drama to tragedy. The borders are sometimes blurred in the running of the bulls, when a bull is in between. And more if the protagonists are six copies of Jandilla , a livestock with a well-deserved reputation for tough in San Fermin.

July 12, 2004 is not just another day on the San Fermín calendar. It is the day that eight waiters paid in blood for their challenge to the horns. Especially two of them, in the alley, where the best-known runner from San Fermin suffered five goring. Her name was Julen Madina. He was not from Pamplona or Navarro, but was born in Hernani (Guipúzcoa), but he represented for years from doors to doors the icon of the San Fermín corridor . He was not the fastest, nor perhaps the purest in the race, but he was the most charismatic and the one who knew best how to understand modern running of the bulls.

The 'bald man from San Fermin' was pure charisma. A runner who was recognized throughout Spain. A runner with a website, with a Wikipedia review ... who was killed by a wave on La Zurriola beach .

That July 12, Julen was finishing the race in his favorite area , in which he had worn so many mornings, the access alley to the arena. The group marched apart, with a peach-haired bull ahead. It was he who brought down a lot on the right side of the alley, in the direction of the race. Four other black gangs came from behind , stumbling over the din of fallen waiters. Three got up and kept going, but a fifth settled on the ground and seized.

Among all the fallen, he hunted Julen Madina. One goring, another goring. Pitonazos that also destroyed the Guipuzcoano's white pants. And start again. The shaft again sunk into his body, and once again, it lifted him a meter off the ground and dropped him again. An anguish of more than 20 seconds in which the runner heard the animal snort at his back between goring and goring, as he later recounted. With another python, the gang had time to throw another waiter in yellow who fell on him, literally.

Behind, just at the entrance to the alley, the brown bull that closed the group turned around and found a wall of fallen boys. He kicked one of them, then another. And he stared challengingly, as if waiting for someone to cough. Luckily, the halters arrived and went with them to the plaza.

War from the start

Although the most memorable of that July 12 are the dramatic scenes of the alley, the truth is that the danger began very soon, from the very beginning. In Santo Domingo, a runner was stopped in the middle of the street to avoid one of the jandillas who was at full speed and was run over by another, sandwiched between the backs of the two bulls. A few meters later, on the right sidewalk, a waiter was caught by the shirt and dragged a few meters.

At the entrance to Mercaderes two black bulls from Jandilla came forward looking greedily and found a runner who was violently turned next to the right fencing. A few meters below, already almost in the Town Hall, another group of runners ran over and a pitonazo in the center of the street. Not a second without drama, without tension.

The herd was completely broken, little brotherly specimens seeking war, separated by a few meters. Thus, any fly distracted those of Jandilla. A winding more almost in the corner of the Estafeta and tense, hard races, but without great scares on the long straight. There the group was already formed as it came to the end of the running of the bulls, with the peach ahead, and a black one and the chestnut closing the group. What happened in the alley is already part of the history of San Fermin.

Part of injured by bull horn

  • One of the transferred is José Miguel GG, 56 years old, caught at the Town Hall; He has two antler wounds on the right knee, although none affects the nerve vascular bundle: one of fifteen centimeters on the outer side of the knee and the other on the inner side.
  • Also the 25-year-old Iván NA, who has a ten-centimeter shaft wound in his buttock. It has been transferred from the Telefónica section.
  • The Gipuzkoan runner Julen Madina has undergone surgery in the operating room of the Pamplona arena after receiving five goring in the alley. According to the first medical report, the runner presents two gorings on the right buttock and another two, on the posterior aspect of the right thigh, wounds for which he has undergone surgery in the Pamplona arena. He presents a fifth wound by a bull horn in the left wrist, which will be treated at the hospital center.
  • The operating room of this infirmary also attended to a second runner reached in the alley, Raúl J., who suffered a two-path goring on the posterior aspect of the right thigh. He will also be transferred to the Virgen del Camino Hospital.
  • Four gorings were treated at the Virgen del Camino Hospital, among them the 24-year-old Parisian Ludovico de CG, with a stitch to the right knee suffered in Santo Domingo, and the Catalan Juan Marín H., 24, a native of Hospitalet , with two bull horn injuries to the right arm and armpit.
  • The other two empitonados are Oscar TB, 29, a native of Barañáin (Navarra), with a bull horn injury to his right thigh sustained in the alley; and the New Yorker MS, 26, injured by a horn in the left thigh in the section of the Town Hall.

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