Anger rises among advocates of the animal cause this Thursday, after the broadcast of a photo of two government ministers, Didier Guillaume and Jacqueline Gourault, sitting in the front row during a bullfight in Bayonne.
The Ministers @j_gourault and @ dguillaume26 with @JreneEtchegaray at the arena of #Bayonne for the corrida goyesque pic.twitter.com/HL0LT4MoLr
- Pierre Sabathié (@PSabathie) August 14, 2019Associations are indignant
The photo of the two ministers, taken by Pierre Sabathié, a Sud-Ouest journalist present on site to cover the event, was quickly shared on social networks by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. "No limit in indecency, the Minister of Agriculture, in charge of animal protection, Didier Guillaume is currently attending with Jacqueline Gourault (another government minister) to a session of animal torture in the bullring of Bayonne ... Scandalous! "Writes the association in a tweet.
No limit in indecency, the Minister of Agriculture, in charge of animal welfare, @ dguillaume26 is currently attending @j_gourault (another government minister) to a session of animal torture in the bullring of Bayonne. Scandalous! pic.twitter.com/pZzHlMfkLu
- BRIGITTE BARDOT FOUNDATION (@FBB_PORTEPAROLE) August 14, 2019The animal rights association, L214, also shared this image on Twitter: "The French minister in charge of animal welfare at the bullfight in Bayonne without comment."
The French minister in charge of animal welfare at the Bayonne bullfight.
Without comment. @ Dguillaume26 @ Min_Agriculture @ gouvernementFRpic.twitter.com / SnGda53LKV
The One Voice association believes that "it is not with such ministers that this 'tradition' will end".
It is not with such ministers that this "tradition" will end. Bullfighting massacre bulls. Calves are put to death by teens whose psyche is trampled: our investigation in a bullfighting school reveals all the horror ▶ ️https: //t.co/UJVwdttJwc#StopCorridahttps: //t.co/TWxkZbq2lx
- One Voice (@onevoiceanimal) August 15, 2019Not a first for these ministers
Pierre Sabathié specifies that it is not the first time that these two ministers attend a bullfighting: "Jacqueline Gourault and Didier Guillaume have already come to attend bullfights at the bullring of Bayonne.The minister must be on vacation in the region, and Didier Guillaume is a regular in the Basque Country where he owns a house. "