Filenews 21 January 2023
The driver who dragged and abandoned the unfortunate 58-year-old motorcyclist, Ioannis Polycarpou, was located and taken to the offices of the ICF Paphos.
According to the Police, this is a 45-year-old man from Britain, he was taken to the Paphos ICF and is currently being questioned, while a warrant for his arrest is expected to be issued to facilitate the interrogations.
It is recalled that a 58-year-old man, while riding his motorcycle on Tombs of the Kings Avenue in Kato Paphos at 2.00am on Saturday, was swept away by a passing vehicle and fatally injured.
The driver of the car left the motorcyclist helplessly and disappeared from the scene. The unfortunate 58-year-old was taken by ambulance to Paphos Hospital, when passing motorists became aware of the tragic incident. The on-duty doctors, however, found that the man was already dead.
As announced, this is a Greek Cypriot resident of Paphos, Ioannis Polycarpou.
The Police launched a manhunt throughout the low-lying area of Paphos to locate the driver of the vehicle involved in the fatality, while examinations continue by the Traffic Police to ascertain all the circumstances under which the tragic incident occurred.
According to information from "F", the Police during the investigation of the case now also possess testimony that the victim and the alleged perpetrator had quarrelled, shortly before the fatal accident, in a beer garden in the area of Tombs of the Kings where the accident occurred. It is now being examined whether this dispute had anything to do with the tragic outcome of the road accident.
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The Police arrested three persons with court warrants yesterday, in order to facilitate the investigation of the investigation of a case of the detection of explosives and an offensive instrument inside a vehicle, in the Famagusta district.
These are three 18-year-old residents of the Famagusta district, whose arrest brings the total number of arrests in this case to five, after two other people aged 18 and 19 had been arrested in the previous days.
The investigation of the case by the Police began on the evening of January 1, 2023. Around 10 p.m. members of the Police spotted a car without registration plates moving on a road in Famagusta district, in which four strangers were on board, who had their face covered with a hood. The police signalled the driver to stop for control, but he developed speed, trying to escape. The members of the Police followed the suspicious car, which was immobilized in a rural area, while the occupants managed to escape by running.
A subsequent search found three fireworks, three Molotov cocktails, a folding bat, six factory firecrackers and four smoke generators inside the vehicle.
Further examinations of the Famagusta ICF secured testimony against five persons. Judicial warrants were issued against them, under which the two were arrested on 17 and 19 January respectively and the other three on 20 January and detained to facilitate interrogations.
Famagusta ICF is investigating the case.
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The Police in Limassol were put on alert after a clash of persons on Friday night in the heart of Limassol and specifically on Anexartisias Street.
According to the first information from the Police, a group of foreign persons collided with each other, resulting in the retrieval of knives.
Specifically, at 19:00 in the afternoon there was a fight between foreigners in a barber shop on the beach. Information was then received that there was an injured person in the area of the CUT library.
Members of the ICF and ADE patrols went to the scene for on-the-spot examinations where they realized that a 22-year-old man had a wound to the abdomen and reported that he was attacked with a knife by another compatriot, who was at the place and identified him. The injured man was taken to Limassol Hospital for tests. The suspect was taken to the ICF for questioning.
The victim is out of danger.
