Spanish tourism minister declared 'an embarrassment' after posing on top of dead deer with its testicles on his head

 

By Lee Moran
PUBLISHED:17:36 GMT, 20 November 2012| UPDATED:07:43 GMT, 21 November 20

A Spanish politician has sparked outrage after a picture of him posing on top of a dead deer with its hacked-off testicles perched on top of his head was posted online.
Carlos Delgado, Minister of Tourism for the Balearic Islands, has been dubbed 'an embarrassment to the country' with the emergence of the photo that was taken on a hunt last year.
Animal rights activists have questioned exactly what type of tourism he is trying to bring to the holiday resorts of Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, and Formentera - which attract thousands of British tourists each year.

Carlos Delgado, Minister of Tourism for the Balearic Islands, was pictured on top of a dead deer with its hacked-off testicles perched on top of his head

Mr Delgado poses with the dead deer. He was dubbed 'an embarrassment to the country' after the emergence of the photo which was taken on a hunt last year

Chesús Yuste, of the Parliamentary Association in Defence of Animals, said the picture - which accompanies another one of him posing with a rifle over the deer's corpse - was an example of 'animal abuse'.
The politician was dragging Spain back into the 11th Century and significantly degrading the animals pictured, he said.
And he added: 'You only have to see the pictures to see what the authors of them think and, I think that this is animal abuse.

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'This kind of action should disappear for the good of society and for the mental health of all. This is harming Spain's image and dragging the country back to the 11th Century.
'He is a minister for tourism, but what kind of tourism is he promoting here?'
Twitter users have also slammed the governing Popular Party politician, who was Mayor of the Calvià municipality at the time of the hunt.

Mr Delgado is the minister responsible for bringing tourism to the Balearic Islands, Ibiza (pictured), Majorca, Minorca, and Formentera

One said: 'He's a brute and a murderer, what kind of person do they have as politicians in Spain?'
Another said: 'The minister needs to go! How would he like it if his testicles, if he has some, were put on his head? What an imbecile!'
And a third added: 'What the hell is going on with our politicians? This photo is just surreal.'
The pictures were first published in Mallorca's Última Hora newspaper, and have since gone viral on various social networks.


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