
Another member, Jesús Escudero, a hairdresser, had a wolf paw tattoo on his ribcage.

One member of the group, a soldier named Alfonso Jesús Cabezuelo, had a tattoo of a howling wolf on his foot, along with the words “The power of the wolf lies in the pack”. Prenda had come to the festival with a group of friends, four men in their mid-20s, who called themselves la manada – the wolf pack. His name was José Ángel Prenda, a 26-year-old from Seville with a broad face and a paunchy stomach across which he had inked his name in large, gothic script.

There, on the bench, a man struck up conversation with her. As she would later testify in court, she nudged her way past the crowds to a bench on the edge of the square to get her bearings. The young woman, who had just finished her first year of university, had been drinking with a few people she had met that night, but after leaving them to dance, she lost sight of them. “People come here to fuck,” a hospital receptionist told me wearily, fanning herself against the July heat, when I attended last year. But the festival has not lost its somewhat seedy reputation. The festival has long had a reputation for bad behaviour – exasperated locals often complain about outsiders turning their town into a lawless city – and after photos of young women being groped by groups of men went viral in 2013, the city launched an anti-sexual assault campaign whose symbol, a red hand, was plastered across billboards, walls and buses. Every morning at the stroke of 8am, the bravest festivalgoers sprint ahead of a group of bulls leading them from the pen where they’re kept to the ring where they will die later that day. The weeklong festival combines a religious celebration of the city’s patron saint, San Fermin, with the eponymous bull run – and copious amounts of alcohol.

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