A ban would be devastating for small towns and rural areas, Le Figaro warns:
"Bullfighting may be considered archaic, or on the contrary, the height of civilisation. But however one feels, there is no need for it to be banned today. For the few departments that hold bullfights, banning them would even be a brutal continuation of the dispossession that is slowly but surely stripping the French of their tangible and intangible heritage. When medium-sized towns are dying out, when rural regions are emptying, when metropolisation is standardising public space with international brand names, is it the right time to classify a regional tradition, part of our ancestral folklore, as a crime?"
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