In France, for the first time in 100 years has killed the Matador
Spanish Matador Ivan Fandino was fatally shot during a performance at the festival in South-West France and died on the way to the hospital.
Last Saturday during a bullfight Fandino entangled in his cloak and fell to the ground, after which he was attacked by a bull.
As reported by the French media reports, the 36-year-old Fantino turned out to be a collapsed lung; he died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital.
The Royal family of Spain and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the Minister of culture of the country expressed deep regret in connection with the death of “the great Torero”.
Born in the Basque Country Ivan Fandino participated in the festival of bullfighting in the French city of Aire-sur-l’adour, located in the region of New Aquitaine, near the border with Spain. He became the first bullfighter to be killed in France in the last 100 years.
Fandino Saturday twice entered the arena and managed to speak before he was mortally wounded.
The photos show that after being wounded he stood on his feet, but was bleeding.
In July last year, the 29-year-old Victor Barrio became the first Matador killed in Spain for 30 years. He was stabbed to death during a bullfight was broadcast live on television.
As reported by French newspaper Sud-Ouest, the last death of a Matador in France was recorded in 1921 in Beziers, when Isidoro Marie Fernando directly into the arena died.
Ivan Fandino at least twice in the past been wounded during a bullfight once in 2015, when the bull tossed him in the air during a fight in Pamplona, Spain, and more seriously the year before, when he lost consciousness during the battle in the French city of Bayonne.
Bullfighting continues to arouse controversy: its opponents call it the spectacle is barbaric, while supporters call it an ancient art form, which is rooted in the national past.
In France, according to AFP, every year killed more than a thousand of bulls during bullfighting, but in 2012 she was recognized as legitimate, after the constitutional court rejected the proposal by animal rights activists to impose a ban on it.
Bullfighting was born in Spain, but about 150 years ago, it became popular in France, especially in the North-Western and South-Western regions.