Spain, the Photo of the Elderly Ladies Sitting and the Police Warning: "Get Out of the Street, It's Public Ground"

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Six elderly ladies sitting on the sidewalk intent on enjoying the shade and chatting with each other. A seemingly harmless image, but it has become the center of a controversy in Santa Fe, a small town in Andalusia, in southern Spain. To unleash the reactions was a post on X of the state police, with which the authorities recalled the prohibition to occupy the public ground with chairs and tables, using as a photo of furniture just the one of th…