Three Canadian off-duty police officers have been arrested over an alleged assault of a sex worker during their vacation in Barcelona, Spanish authorities said.<\/p>\n
One of the officers was suspended upon returning to Canada, the Toronto Police Service said. The other two officers will also be suspended when they return, police said.<\/p>\n
“The allegations are serious,” Toronto’s police deparment wrote in an emailed statement to the BBC.<\/p>\n
Toronto police did not release the officers’ names and said they would not comment further while the cases were before the courts.<\/p>\n
“We can confirm reports that three Canadian off-duty police officers charged in Barcelona are employed by the Toronto Police Service,” the department said.<\/p>\n
“The officers were on vacation and were not travelling in any official capacity.”<\/p>\n
Spanish authorities told the BBC in an emailed statement that they were first alerted of the incident in the early hours on 13 May, after a woman called for help from inside a taxi.<\/p>\n
When Spanish police arrived, they arrested two of the three identified suspects. The third officer fled and was arrested days later.<\/p>\n
The woman told police she was a sex worker who had previously arranged an encounter with one of the officers. She said things turned violent, however, after she declined to participate in an unexpected “group act”.<\/p>\n
She told police she was then insulted, assaulted and groped.<\/p>\n
Spanish police said the victim sustained visible injuries to her face and was in a state of shock. She was transported to hospital and later filed a police report.<\/p>\n
One of the Canadian officers was arrested on charges of sexual assault and causing bodily injury. Another was arrested for resistance and disobedience.<\/p>\n
The third officer, who allegedly beat the woman, was located days later, after a chase in Palma de Mallorca, Canadian media reported. They appeared in court on 15 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Canadian off-duty police officers have been arrested over an alleged assault of a sex worker during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13738,13736,13737,17,10504,13479,13481,13477],"class_list":["post-26515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-alleged-assault","tag-police-officers","tag-police-report","tag-spain","tag-spanish-authorities","tag-spanish-police","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}