Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:32

For the second time the Constitutional Court examines the claim on the alleged acts of cruelty against animals in bullfighting and cockfighting, the law allows as an exception to the statute of animal protection. The Court in an earlier statement failed to fail background found no viable because the applicant's arguments. On this occasion, the attorney noted that the Court should abstain from further comment on the subject ...

... For lack of clarity in the application and make statements without proving the violation of rights.



According to the complainant Carlos Andres Echeverry bullfighting and cock fighting violates cultural diversity because such activities are against the recognition and practice of other cultures who reject the cruel treatment against them.


According to the Attorney in his opinion "it is a claim that does not demonstrate what those other cultures that reject the related cruel bullfighting or cockfighting, the specific reasons that have these groups of people about it, and to what extent These practices threaten the existence and preservation of these cultures. Is missing in the statement of the actor, the total lack of minimum or basic understanding of what culture means in the Colombian constitutional environment. "