The Archive · 1930

MELUN RIOT OVER BULL FIGHT

Paris, May 29, Riotous scenes ensued in the suburb of Melun on the occasion of the traditional bull ght on Ascension Day when 400 members of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty. to Animals attempted to storm the! arena. When the police started to]

ive them back the enraged animal] lovers set fire to the grandstand which: however, was immediately extinguished, tyite, neetators wore split into we camps, one demaniling the stop of the bull fight and the other insisting upon its continuation, The two parties immediately proceeded to attack wadi other. Tne police, being hopelessly outnumbered, ws compelled to watch the fisteuff until the arrival of reinforcements when a nupiber of the ring leaders Were arrested—Trans-Ocean Kuo] were Trans

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