The Justice ratifies the prohibition of the new tournament of Toro de la Vega de Tordesillas

The court ruling determined that the modification was "a new spectacle" not contemplated in the current legal framework, without veterinary report guaranteeing the survival of the animal. Read

The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) has ratified the decision it has already taken in 2022 when it cautiously prohibited the new form that the Town Council of Tordesillas wanted to adopt for the Toro de la Vega de Tordesillas (Valladolid). After that practice was ended in 2016 as had been done for decades – throwing the animal to kill it in public – for several years and until the pandemic came that event occurred as a lock…

«The new bases contemplate a celebration whose development in no way can be said to be according to the custom of the place, nor can it be said that it has an age of at least two hundred years, but is completely new».

The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León has annulled the bases of the tournament of 2022 approved by the Town Council of Tordesillas and the Junta of Castilla y León on the grounds that it violates the regulations in force

The resolution comes after a judicial battle led by the Animalist Party PACMA

The Superior Court of Justice of Castilla y León (TSJCyL) considers the appeal filed by the Animalist Party (Pacma) and annuls the bases of the tournament of 2022 approved by the Council of Tordesillas (Valladolid), with the endorsement of the Council of Environment, Housing and Territory Planning, on the understanding that it is “contrary to the law”. The judgment of the Administrative Litigation Chamber is not final and can be appealed within …