Dozens of animal rights activists in Barcelona stripped down and covered themselves with fake blood during a protest against the country’s fur and leather industry.
Blood-splattered activists from animal rights group Anima Naturalis made up a pile of bodies in the Spanish city yesterday to make a stand against the use of animal skins.
The group lay down in front of shocked shoppers and tourists in the city centre while one demonstrator held a sign which read: “How many lives just for a coat?”
The protest, which claimed that 32 million animals are slaughtered in the EU for fur, was held in one of Barcelona’s main shopping and tourism destinations Plaza Catalunya.
Posting on social media after the protest, the group wrote: “One more year, Anima Naturalis organises the most shocking action against the use of animal skins.
“We put ourselves in the place of animals that suffer and die in the industry, a way to visualise in human bodies the amount of lives that are lost only to make a fur coat.”
Part-dressed campaigners from the same animal rights group last year wore horns and covered themselves in fake blood in Pamplona to protest against annual bull runs.
More than 100 activists marched while holding signs which read: “Stop the Bloody Bullfights.”
The protesters - half of whom were “runners” and half of whom were “bulls” – shot blood-red flares into the sky to call for an end to the San Fermín festival’s Running of the Bulls event.
