Bullfighters 'hired Colombian assassins to kill rivals' horses'

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Source: The Independent (UK)

Three men on trial after firebomb attack that left six Domecq-dynasty thoroughbreds dead and injured six others
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
Tuesday, 11 November 2008

... The arson attack meant the Domecqs' hugely expensive horses, trained for years to perfect the intricate footwork and elaborate curvetting movements of rejoneo, were unable to take part in 60 mounted bullfights during the 2001 season, resulting in enormous financial losses for the owners and the bullfighters who would have ridden them.

But to complicate the intrigue, the Domecq horses – considered among the finest in Spain – were not the intended target.

The accused – Jose Miguel Callejon Martin, 30, then a promising young competitor; his father, Jose Antonio Callejon Amoros, and Manuel Buendía – allegedly contracted three Colombian hired assassins, or sicarios, to destroy horses belonging to another rejoneador – Sergio Galan, an up-and-coming rival.

By a bizarre twist of fate, the Colombians – who vanished after the act and whose whereabouts remain unknown – attacked the wrong horses. On the day of the crime, Sergio Galan and the Domecq brothers, Luis and Antonio, had all taken part in a horseback bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. When each party set off for home with their horses in trailers, the Colombian hitmen chose the wrong lorry by mistake and followed the Domecq convoy, instead of that of Galan ...



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bullfighters-hired-colombian-assassins-to-kill-rivals-horses-1009590.html

[AlphaCentauri]

1. the Domecq horses are great animals, well trained

I have seen Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza do the rejoneo and I tell you his live depends on that type of horses

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2. best headline of the day nt

[Coventina]

3. sick bastards on so many levels...

:puke:

[chatnoir]

4. WTF, are these sick bastards living in the Middle Ages?

Repugnant on every level. :puke: