THE wife of a Spanish matador gored to death in the bullring was in the crowd and witnessed the tragedy.
Victor Barrio, 29, became the first bullfighter to be killed this century after a 527kg bull called Lorenzo gored him in the chest as he lay on the ground after up-ending him as he performed at a bullfight in Teruel, east of Madrid.
This framegrab taken from Castilla La Mancha TV shows matador Victor Barrio being gored by the bull on Saturday.Source:AP
His wife of two years, a leading right-wing councillor in their home town of Sepulveda in Segovia north west of the Spanish capital and a self-confessed bullfighting fan, was said to be “devastated”, The Sun reported.
Raquel Sanz thanked fans and wellwishers via on Twitter: “Thanks to everyone. I cannot reply to you, I have no words. My life has gone, I have no strength, although I have a lot of thanks.”
She also thanked her home town of Sepulveda in the province of Segovia northwest of Madrid, writing:
“Thanks Sepulveda. Our Sepulveda. Yours and Mine” and telling her late husband in an emotional message: “I’m sure that where you are you have a privileged view.”
Admitting it would be a “tough day” and branding life “unfair”, she posted a poem by Spanish poet Jose Leon which ended with the words: “How I would love to believe that there is glory for all those who lose their lives on the horns of bulls.
On their wedding day in 2014. Picture: SolarpixSource:Picture Media
Raquel Sanz.Source:Facebook
“If that is not the case, then rest in peace wherever you are and us poets will make sure you become immortal.”
The 32-year-old brunette posted a message on Facebook less than a week before the tragedy advertising a coach trip locals were organising to Teruel which included a lunch and tickets to the bullfight which formed part of an annual festival in the town called the Feria del Angel.
The festival coincides with another world-famous one, the ongoing San Fermin or Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona.
She said: “Have you got plans for next Saturday, July 9? Come to Teruel. Their annual festival is very famous and they compete, and not only in respect of dates, with San Fermin.
Victor Barrio being thrown by the bull.Source:AP
“And to cap it all Victor Barrio is taking part.”
In her last Facebook post, on July 7, she also raved at the fact San Fermin was starting again, joking:
“I’m going to play the lottery today, which is dedicated to the fiesta. Let’s see if I can get away to see it.”
Raquel, a journalist who married her husband in 2014, narrowly missed out in her bid to become mayoress of Sepulveda in municipal elections last year.
She served as deputy mayoress following her PP’s party pact with the governing left-wing PSOE party until their agreement came to an end earlier this year.
Bullfighters and assistants observe a minute's silence, in honour of bullfighter Victor Barrio.Source:AP
Raquel retweeted a message of condolence from Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy on her Twitter in the early hours of this morning.
She also retweeted a warning message from a TV station dedicated to bullfighting which asked supporters of the blood sport to alert them to offensive messages on social media.
It followed a flood of messages from opponents of bullfighting on places like Twitter rejoicing at Victor Barrio’s death.
One, Jona Weinhofen, wrote: “He obviously hasn’t heard the saying, ‘You Mess with the Bull, you get the horns. Zero sympathy, thank you Karma.”
Victor Barrio is carried from the ring.Source:AP
Barrio, who became a fully-qualified bullfighter in 2012, died moments after being rushed to a field hospital by the side of the bullring after being gored yesterday afternoon.
His death was the first of a matador this century in Spain in a bullring.
Two matadors died in the eighties, including the famous Francisco Rivera.
Two bandilleros, who plant little flags with barbed points in the top of the bull’s shoulders, were killed in the ring in 1992.
The bullfight was suspended after the incident, which was broadcast live on Spanish television.
Barrio was not the only person to be gored to death by a bull this weekend.
A Spaniard named Ruben Frasquet Morant was killed during a bull run festival in Valencia on Saturday.
Revellers run beside Pedraza de Yeltes's fighting bulls as they go on the way of the Estafeta street during the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain.Source:AP
The 29-year-old was helping two young women into the safety of a caged-off area along the course when he was charged and killed.
He was gored near his heart and pronounced dead on arrival at hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Ruben, who lived in Oliva near the scene of the bull-run in Pedreguer, had gone with friends to the event which is dubbed the Valencian San Fermin.
A witness said: “It was a lapse of concentration. And when it was inevitable he was going to be gored, he turned towards the heifer which gored him in the abdomen.”
Last year 12 people died at bull festivals across Spain.
Two other people are “serious” in hospital after being gored on the fourth bull run of this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona.
Participants run ahead of Pedraza de Yeltes' fighting bulls on the fourth day of the San Fermin bull run festival in Pamplona, northern Spain.Source:AFP
Red Cross officials said one was gored in the neck — suffering a near five-inch wound which reached the base of his tongue.
The second reveller suffered a gore wound to an armpit.
Both runners were hurt inside the tunnel leading to the bullring as the bulls reached the end of the half-mile course which took them through the streets of the old town in Pamplona, northern Spain.
It was initially thought only three runners had suffered head injuries during the run which started at 8am local time.
They were identified as a 39-year-old man from Murcia in southeast Spain, a 28-year-old man from Madrid and a 36-year-old man from Barcelona.
No information was immediately available on the ages or nationalities of the two gore victims.
The five injuries took the tally from the four runs that have taken place so far during the San Fermin festival to nearly 40.
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