Bad weather spoiled the military parade 12-Obut that didn’t stop one of the big stars of the Columbus Day makes its star: like every year, the goat of the Spanish Legion He accompanied the military corps during the National Day, which parades at 160 steps per minute.
The Legion Goat is a historic piece in the Legion parade. Armed Forces and its presence responds to an ancient military custom according to which troops carried livestock with them to ensure their food when they had to participate in long military campaigns. Some of them were pardoned until eventually the goat became the Legion’s mascot. Even today, she parades with the cap of the military corps and covered with a coat with the Legion emblem. In addition, He has a military rank, that of corporal.
In fact, this year it was a ram that paraded through the streets of central Madrid, which has already happened in 2022. The one in 2024 is called Killois 6 years old and is part of the Tercio Don Juan de Austria 3rd of the Legion deployed at the Álvarez de Sotomayor base in Viator, Almería.
Others who marched in front of Killo remained in the memory of many Spaniards, such as Emeritus Goat Pepedeceased, or Miurawho accompanied the Legion during the last parades.
Last July, the government of Pedro Sanchez revealed that it is proposed to ban the goat of the legionconsidered a great emblem of this elite military force, participates in military parade of the October 12. As the general director of Animal rights of the Executive, Jose Ramon Becerrahis presence at the parade “is somewhat anachronistic”. He said this issue “needs to be better regulated than it is now.”
The general director stressed that banning it at the moment “is not a priority”, although he suggested that it was a project on the horizon of Pedro Sánchez’s legislature. He referred to “the use of animals of all kinds in watchlike the participation of the Legion Goat.
