Animal rights charity Peta has hailed the “bravery” of a Swedish adult model who jumped into a bullring in southern Spain to comfort the dying animal.

Amina Axelsson jumped over the barrier of La Malagueta bullring in Malaga and unfurled a banner that read “Stop bullfights!” before being removed from the bullring by one of the matadors.

“It was a symbolic act to show that we are thinking about the bull,” Axelsson told The Local.

“No animal should have to endure an agonizing and unnecessary death for the enjoyment of a crowd,” said Axelsson, 41, who describes herself on Twitter as a Swedish stripper and adult model.

“I join together with Peta to urge all compassionate people to stop these cruel events, which have been condemned internationally, by never attending a bullfight,” the activist said.

Axelsson is no stranger to animal rights protests, having stripped and painted herself in fake animal blood during a bullfighting protest in Pamplona last year. She has also staged numerous protests in her native Sweden against the fur industry.

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