Pamplona erupts with start of Spain’s Fermin bull-run fiesta

The spectacle surrounding the eight-and-a-half-day running of the bulls – more than the daily, life-threatening action of the animals themselves – has inspired him to return to the event over the last 15 years. In the evening, there are bullfights.

Instead he’s joined dozens of animal rights activists in stripping down to his underwear and pouring fake blood on himself in a confronting public protest.

A Mayo woman ditched her clothes and covered herself in blood to protest the torture of bulls in Pamplona, Spain today.

It marks the beginning of the San Fermin festival, which takes place annually between 6th and 14th July.

Animal rights group PETA organised the protest and the shocking video is getting plenty of attention on Twitter.

It’s a demonstrate for the abolition of bull runs and bullfights a day before the start of the famous running of the bulls.

“We’re calling on Spain to end its widely condemned Running of the Bulls event and the bullfighting that follows and with the, the horrific suffering and abuse of bulls”. “Many bulls are paralysed but still conscious as they are chained and dragged out of the arena”. Dozens of people are injured each year in the runs, majority in falls.

The bulls are forced to run in the race by electric shocks and they are beaten and harassed by the “corridors”.

Another novelty in this year’s festival is Pamplona council covering the city streets with CK-Splashback, a product that stops people from urinating in the streets by making any liquids poured splash back from the walls and onto people’s legs.