By Michael Havis For Mailonline
Published: 17:23 BST, 3 June 2019 | Updated: 17:29 BST, 3 June 2019
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Horrifying images of bulls younger than two-years-old being tortured to death by children in Spain have been described as 'unfit for a civilized country'.
The outrageous scenes were filmed yesterday at an arena in Cordoba, where student bullfighters – some apparently minors – were invited to skewer the helpless calves for entertainment.
Video shows the ears were hacked off one of the dying animals and presented to a child matador as a trophy, while another boy was handed the animal's tail.
The footage also revealed a student bullfighter – seemingly a teenager – who appeared to have been injured, with his face caked in blood as he attacks.
A young bullfighter was seen in the footage with flood pouring down his face as he lanced a bull in Cordoba
Once the ears and tail were hacked off the dying bull, child matadors paraded their trophies around the ring
An adult cut off the ear and tail, then placed them on the bull before handing them to the children to take as trophies
According to campaigners from Animal Guardians and La Tortura No Es Cultura (Torture Is Not Culture), the outrage is repeated annually in a so-called homage to Cordovan women.
'Every year they do this calf-fighting and they say they do it as a homage to Cordovan women,' said Marta Esteban of Animal Guardians.
'Very few people attend, about 2,000 in a 17,000-capacity bullring.
'They also do it