Pamplona (EFE).- The rise in temperatures and the massive influx of visitors, taking advantage of the weekend, mark the third festive day of the Sanfermines in which the bulls from the José Escolar ranch from Avila have starred in a fast and exciting race that has resulted in four runners being taken to hospital.
After two days, characterized by rain and storms that have forced the suspension of various festive events, this Saturday dawned with clear skies and announcements of a rise in temperatures that have led to calls from the health field to take extreme precautions and hydrate.
And it is that, in the words of the managing director of the University Hospital of Navarra, Alfredo Martínez Larrea “they are going to be difficult days of heat and a large influx of people”, a situation that “is more complicated with the consumption of alcohol”.
With more people in the streets than the day before, both spectators and runners, the second running of the bulls took place with some unpredictable José Escolar bulls, who carried out a fast race lasting 2 minutes and 20 seconds, in which they experienced exciting moments in front of the antlers.
Four runners transferred
During the race there have been numerous falls that have been assisted in the positions established on the route. Thus, the Red Cross has treated 50 people, who in 33 cases have required cures and the DYA has assisted 6 more.
Finally, four runners have had to be transferred to the University Hospital of Navarra, one of them, JEE, 31 years old from Tarragona, with a scratch from a bull horn on his arm and side, which is not particularly serious.
The 20-year-old ISO from Pamplona has suffered an abdominal trauma; BSG, from Eugi (Navarra), 31, has a head contusion and also a contusion to his left ankle, and RDE, from San Antonio (Texas, United States), has suffered a thoracic trauma.
Fernando Robleño, Juan del Álamo and Borja Jiménez will fight the bulls this afternoon in the arena of Pamplona.
In addition to these festivities, the monumental hosts events such as the trimming contest, in which this Saturday Cristian Pilar Tejedor suffered a 10-centimetre-deep goring to the back of the right thigh that reached the inside of the femur. His prognosis is “less serious.”
Twinning with other cities
As every year, the City Council dedicates a day of the holidays to extol and reinforce the twinning with its four sister cities, Paderborn, Yamaguchi, Pamplona (Colombia) and Bayonne. With the latter it is the one with which it maintains a more intense relationship and so this Saturday, the City Council has offered a reception to a delegation from this French city in which the friendship and harmony that has united them for 63 years has been revealed.
In that act, in statements to the media, the mayoress of Pamplona, Cristina Ibarrola, has valued the “normality” with which the festivities are taking place.
Ibarrola had previously chaired the Local Civil Protection Board, in which the “good start” of the Sanfermines was highlighted, with a greater influx of people and normality in the development of the festivities, despite the fact that the rain of the first two days that has led to the suspension of more than twenty activities of the festive program.
At that meeting, the increase in thefts was highlighted, which has gone from 207 in 2022 to 305 this year in the first two days of the festivities, that is, 47% more. Especially mobile phones.
There are already 11 complaints for alleged sexist attacks, all of them for touching, whose alleged perpetrators have already been arrested.
Tribute to German Rodriguez
July 8 is a date to remember in the San Fermin calendar. The Sanfermines 78 collective: gogoan! has celebrated the traditional tribute to Germán Rodríguez, who was shot dead by the police at the festivities in 1978, an act in which he denounced the 45 years of “impunity” of those responsible for those events.
At night, all eyes will be turned to the sky with the International Fireworks Contest and the music will bring together a variety of audiences on different stages with performances such as Fangoria, DJ Los Gallopez or Skabidean.
Apart from the festive programme, one of the protagonists of the past Sanfermines, Juan Carlos Unzué, in charge of launching the chupinazo in 2022, has received the gold medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit from Minister Miquel Iceta in an act held at the Palacio de Navarra.