Three Toronto police officers charged with sexual assault in Barcelona

Off-duty officers allegedly assaulted a sex worker in a taxi in Ciutat Vella, according to police in Catalonia

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Three off-duty https://www.theguardian.com/world/toronto--news-">Toronto police officers have been charged with sexual assault while vacationing in https://www.theguardian.com/world/barcelona">Barcelona, in an incident likely to pile pressure on a force already under intense public scrutiny.

According to police in Barcelona, the alleged assault occurred on the evening of 13 May, when the trio of police officers were travelling in a taxi with a sex worker in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood of Barcelona.