‘I feel I was raped’: six women in Barcelona seek justice after relationship with ‘spy cop’

The legal challenge also takes aim at Spain’s home ministry, arguing that it is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the country’s police forces. Photograph: Enric Fontcuberta/EPA

The first time he showed up at Barcelona’s poster-plastered La Cinètika – a former cinema turned squatted anticapitalist social centre – was in mid-2020.

Friendly, funny and flirtatious, he introduced himself as Dani, a recent transplant to the city who was scraping by installing air conditioners, and said he had stumbled across the centre after searching online for a cheap place to work out.