A nod to one of the classics of French song. Three days after the study of Aymeric Caron’s bill in the National Assembly to prohibit bullfighting, the text signed by a hundred elected officials from Nupes quotes a famous song by Francis Cabrel.
“I hear them laugh while I moan and watch them. Dance while I succumb. I didn’t think we could have so much fun around a grave. Is this world serious? ”, can be read in the preamble.
“The Sufferings of a Bull”
Premiered in 1994, the song that puts himself in the skin of a bull during a bullfight marks the singer’s opposition to this practice, after having witnessed a massacre in Bayonne.
What to give ideas to the deputy La France insoumise who quotes in his bill these words that “render the spirits”.
“They describe the misunderstanding, the struggle and the suffering of a bull that lives its last moments in the ring”, underlines this text.
A very hypothetical ban
Francis Cabrel “leaves us alone before this inverted truth: the roles have been poorly distributed, and the savage is not the one who had been designated as such”, we also read there.
The ban on bullfighting will be considered by the National Assembly on Thursday, but its approval seems highly unlikely. The legal commission issued an unfavorable opinion last week and Renaissance is deeply divided on whether to end the killing of bulls after bullfights.
Although Aurore Bergé had signed a platform in 2021 to end this practice -when she was not yet the patron saint of Macronista deputies-, the movement chose to leave freedom of vote to their elected officials. Leaves to provoke the gnashing of teeth.
Macronists divided
Hérault Renaissance MP Patrick Vignal, for example, demonstrated alongside RN elected officials on Saturday to support what he describes as a “cultural practice”.
“Let’s stop humiliating the territories with measures that are of no interest to anyone. We cannot leave the defense of our culture to the RN or let the Parisian sores humiliate the people with this type of prohibition”, defended the parliamentarian from BFMTV.com.
200 elected officials and politicians signed a bullfighting platform this Saturday in the JDDamong them Christophe Castaner, the former head of the Renaissance deputies, Jean-François Mattéi, who leads the Modem group in the National Assembly or even François Patriat, the number one Macronist group in the Senate.
Source: BFM TV
