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Final Moments of Matador’s Life Captured After Fatal Bullring Accident
In 2017, a Spanish bullfighter stumbled over his cape and was gored to death.
At the time of the occurrence, experienced matador Ivan Fandiño was participating in the Aire-sur-l’Adour bullfighting festival in southwest France.
After being gored in the ring, the 36-year-old was taken to the hospital, but his terrifying last words eventually disclosed that he had not survived.
Born in the Basque country, Fandiño had worked as a matador for 12 years and was well-known for his courage to take on bulls that others thought were too hazardous.
He had participated in a competition earlier that day prior to his injuries.
The half-tonne bull gored the matador and father as he collapsed to the ground after catching his foot in his cloak.
Several important organs in Fandiño’s torso, including his lungs, were punctured by the animal’s horn.
Photos from the time showed him bleeding heavily but still conscious as they escorted him out of the ring.
He then passed away following a heart attack while traveling to the hospital, according to French media.
As he was being rushed away, his harrowing final words were reportedly, “Hurry up, I’m dying.”
Matador Juan del Alamo, who later killed the bull, said at the time, “I can’t believe it. None of us understand how it could have happened; it was all so fast. The bull knocked him down with its hindquarters and he fell face down.”
Fandiño had already suffered at least two injuries in the ring. He was flung into the air by a bull in Pamplona, Spain, in 2015. More tragically, a bull had rendered him comatose in Bayonne, France, the previous year.
Fandiño was said to be the first matador to pass away in France in a century. In 1921, Isidoro Mari Fernando passed away in the arena at Béziers, France, according to the Sud-Ouest newspaper.
The Spanish prime minister and royal family honored Fandiño, with King Felipe tweeting an homage to a “great bullfighter figure.”
The matador passed away about a year after Spanish matador Victor Barrio was gored during a live television event, making him the first matador to pass away in Spain in thirty years.
Despite calls from animal rights activists to outlaw the highly contentious sport, bullfighting was legalized in France in 2012.
Additionally, it is still permitted in Spain despite appeals, as it is regarded as a component of the nation’s “cultural heritage.”
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