Social media customers shared photographs and movies of the incident. Credit score: @MontiBcn
The eight-year-old animal, raised in Cerdanyola, died in the course of the parade within the Sant Antoni district, forcing a change of route and the cancellation of the animal blessing.
What was meant to be a grand commemorative celebration of 200 years of the Tres Tombs parade in Barcelona’s Sant Antoni neighbourhood was overshadowed on Saturday, third Could by the sudden loss of life of a horse, which collapsed on Parlament Avenue.
An eight-year-old horse died this Saturday in the course of the bicentenary celebration of Els Tres Tombs in Barcelona. The incident occurred at 11:11 am, shortly after the parade started, on the junction of Parlament and Borrell streets. The animal’s loss of life sparked a wave of criticism from animal rights teams, political events, and onlookers who witnessed the scene.
As a part of the anniversary, one of the vital fashionable processions of the Tres Tombs festivities—a parade of carriages that ends with the blessing of home animals on the feast of Saint Anthony—had organised a nationwide gathering this weekend, that includes 70 carriages, 200 horses, and 600 traginers (cart drivers in Catalan) from 95 cities throughout Catalonia.
In Barcelona, the Tres Tombs parades happen within the Sant Antoni and Sant Andreu districts. The identify derives from the custom of parading 3 times (or tombs, in Catalan) across the neighbourhood.
Following the incident, the organisers altered the route, diverting the parade alongside Manso Avenue whereas the horse’s physique remained coated on the street awaiting elimination.
The fallen horse lay on the tarmac, coated with a purple blanket, and blocked the parade for a while till a truck arrived to pull it away.
The Animalist Occasion PACMA, which denounced the incident on social media, has introduced it is going to think about authorized motion in opposition to these liable for each the animal and the occasion’s organisation: “PACMA will think about attainable authorized motion in opposition to these liable for each the horse and the organisers, who take lives yearly.” In the identical tweet, they added: “It’s disgraceful. Animals should not right here for this. You haven’t any disgrace,” posting photos of the horse on X (previously Twitter).
The horse collapsed
After the tip of Els Tres Tombs, animal rights teams Free The Animals and Girona Animal Save held a protest outdoors the Guardia Urbana station, gathering round twenty folks.
The horse collapsed two hours earlier than the primary festivities started. Though efforts have been made to revive it with water, it was too late. Veterinarians have said {that a} autopsy is required to find out the precise reason for loss of life.
In the meantime, the Basis for Recommendation and Motion in Defence of Animals (FAADA) attributed the horse’s loss of life to a attainable coronary heart assault introduced on by the stress of the parade. “We name on authorities to control Els Tres Tombs and put an finish to this struggling,” they wrote on social media.
The group Police for Animals additionally questioned the official model: “If the trigger continues to be unknown, how can they declare the animal wasn’t struggling?” On social media, dozens of customers described the occasion as a case of institutionalised cruelty. “Els Tres Tombs is a show of animal abuse. No horse deserves to die like this,” many wrote. Whereas the autopsy will decide the exact reason for loss of life, preliminary studies counsel the horse might have suffered a heart attack.
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