There are still ten minutes remaining until the clock shows 5:00 p.m. A group of friends, all around 60 years of age, who have been engaged in conversation for a while, rise to settle their tab at the café where they have been savouring a picado. “It seems the queue is now reaching the Civil Guard,” one of them reads from a WhatsApp message on her mobile device. They then proceed, much like the throngs of people around them, to the central Avenida Emilio Luque Moreno, adjacent to the La Milagrosa school. Indeed, the queue is already quite substantial. It began forming at 2:00 p.m., when the first individual took their place by the entrance.
