Rio police arrest Scottish tourists for alleged nudity and obscenity

Police in Rio have arrested four Scottish tourists after the men were caught removing their clothes and making "obscene gestures" on one of the world's most famous beaches. An intelligence official from the military police battalion in Copacabana told the Guardian the men were arrested on Tuesday after a 52-year-old woman made a complaint to a passing police patrol on Copacabana beach in Rio's south zone. According to reports in the local media, police were able to charge only one of the men because witnesses could positively identify only one of the group. The tourist, named by police as 42-year-old Paul Terrance Walker, was charged with "inconvenient conduct" after witnesses told police he had stripped naked and harassed locals on Avenida Atlantica, the beachside avenue that runs alongside Copacabana beach, at about 8pm on Tuesday. "He was making obscene gestures, showing his intimate parts to women and waving himself around," said the police official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "We're not sure what he thought he was doing."