France considers bull-fighting ban
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MPS WANT LAW CHANGE TO BAN 'BARBARIC' SPORT WHICH THEY SAY HAS NO PLACE IN MODERN FRANCE BULL and cockfighting could be banned in France under a draft law that has been submitted
to the French parliament. Two MPs - Socialist Geneviève Gaillard and UMP politician Muriel Marland-Militello - say the "barbaric" sport has no place in modern France. They want to
delete one article from the _Code Pénal_ which allows bull and cockfighting if it is "long-running local tradition". According to _Paris Match_, several hundred bullfights take
place in the south of France every year, killing about 1,000 animals. Cockfighting is more common in the north. Mrs Marland-Militello said at a press conference this week: "Those who
defend bullfighting are terribly active, but very much in the minority." The bill has the support of about a dozen MPs so far, including the MP for the Gard, where Nîmes is famous for
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