This is the horror moment a half-tonne bull bursts through a crash barrier into a crowd of children during an Easter parade gone wrong. Shocking footage of the attack was caught on camera at the ancient Toro del Aleluya festival in Arcos de la Frontera, in the Spanish province of Cadiz, on April 19.
During the celebrations, four Hallelujah Bulls are released to run the town’s streets. But instead of inhumanely killing the bulls at the end of the run, the animals are returned to their farms, in order to represent the mercy of Christ. But when the first of them, called Infinito, was released from a transport crate, he immediately attacked the crowd.
In hard-to-watch footage, the bull charges a flimsy-looking safety barrier which falls apart instantly. Horrifically children brought down to the front by their parents for a better view are the first to be gored and tossed to the ground.
As Infinito charges through the crowd, one woman filming the gruesome spectacle from her balcony screams: “The children, the children!” As more than 20 spectators are battered and trampled on the ground by the bull, more are crushed against barriers as hundreds try to flee.
Finally Infinito returns to the parade route where one brave DIY matador with a pink cape leads it away. Three people are said to have needed medical treatment for crush injuries and goring including a 60-year-old woman.
City mayor Miguel Rodriguez insisted safety measures at the event had not been below standard. He said: “It’s not normal for this to happen, but in any bullring, boards can break or unforeseen events can occur.”
The incident comes after a man died after being horrifically gored in the groin and pelvis during a traditional bull-running event in Spain last May.
The 57-year-old was charged by the rampaging animal during a festival in a town near Valencia and had tried to take shelter in the doorway of a nearby house. But the bull still managed to attack him twice through the metal bars and cause serious injury.
The man was rushed to hospital but he has now sadly died seven weeks after the incident. The bull-running event took place in La Vall d’Uixó, a town situated in eastern Spain, in the Valencian province of Castelló.
The death was the first of the 2024 in the traditional “bous al carrer’ in the province and the entire Valencian community. Thousands of people were taking part in the patron saint festivities of Saint Vincent in April. Horrified spectators who witnessed the goring rushed to help him and carried him to the local infirmary whilst others chased after and eventually captured the bull.
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