"The alleged assault occurred on the evening of May 13, when the trio of police officers were travelling in a taxi with a sex worker in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood of Barcelona. The off-duty officers allegedly tried to force the woman to have sex with them all simultaneously, according to the regional paper El Periodico de Catalunya. When she refused, the three suspects are alleged to have become violent and to have started insulting, threatening and beating the woman."
"One of the officers in the back allegedly sexually assaulted the victim, while the other allegedly punched her in the face, causing a cut above her eyebrow that required stitches due to profuse bleeding, the newspaper wrote. Faced with this situation, the woman called for help from the taxi window. When plainclothes officers from Barcelona's municipal police force stopped the taxi and ordered its occupants out, one of the Canadian policemen reacted violently, while another, who had hit the woman, ran away."
"Two of them were arrested at the time, while a third fled. One of the two men arrested in Barcelona has been charged with sexual assault and assault, while another has been released on bail, said a spokesperson the Catalan police, the Mossos d'Esquadra. The third man was arrested on the morning of Friday 15 May in Palma de Mallorca in cooperation with the Guardia Civil."
"The Toronto police service confirmed the arrests on 18 May, but the TPS did not respond to questions over why it failed to proactively disclose the arrests by Spanish police. A Toronto police spokesperson called the allegations serious but said the force was not"
Three off-duty Toronto police officers were charged in Barcelona after an alleged sexual assault and violence against a sex worker on May 13. The incident allegedly occurred in a taxi in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood while the officers were travelling with the woman. The officers were accused of trying to force the woman to have sex with all of them simultaneously, and after she refused, of insulting, threatening, and beating her. One officer was alleged to have sexually assaulted her while another punched her, causing a cut above her eyebrow that required stitches. The woman called for help from the taxi window, and municipal police stopped the taxi, ordered the occupants out, and arrested two while a third fled. One arrested man was charged with sexual assault and assault, another was released on bail, and the third was arrested in Palma de Mallorca with Guardia Civil cooperation.
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