Three Toronto police officers arrested over sexual assault in Barcelona

Key points

• The Toronto police force, which is already under intense public scrutiny, is facing fresh questions after it emerged that three off-duty officers on vacation in Barcelona were arrested in connection with a sexual assault last week.
• According to police in Barcelona, the alleged assault occurred in the early hours of 13 May, when the trio of police officers were travelling in a taxi with a sex worker in the Ciutat Vella neighbourhood of the Catalan capital.
• The officers allegedly tried to force the woman to have sex with them all simultaneously, according to the regional paper El Periódico 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...