Pafos Live 18 July 2023
Scaffolding and placards worth more than €7,000 were stolen from a construction site of a construction company in a village in the low area of Paphos.
The manager of the company's construction site complained that from Friday afternoon, when the construction site was closed, until yesterday morning, when it reopened, unknown persons breached the fencing and stole the scaffolding and tiles worth a total of €7,200.
It is noted that in recent days two more cases of scaffolding theft from construction sites have been reported, while the police have arrested three young foreigners of Arab origin.
In one case, the perpetrators were caught red-handed unloading scaffolding stolen from a construction site in an area of Tremithousa.
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Filenews
Police arrested a 27-year-old man yesterday after 19 migrants arrived in the Famagusta sea area.
The migrants were on a boat that was spotted at around 4pm yesterday, 12 nautical miles southeast of Cape Greco. A boat of the Port and Maritime Police, intercepted the boat and after picking up the migrants, transferred them to the fishing shelter of Paralimni.
Among the 19 migrants were 13 men, three women and three minors who were found to have set sail on the evening of July 15 from an area in Syria. Police examinations revealed that the boat's navigator was a 27-year-old man, who was arrested and detained.
Subsequently, the remaining 18 migrants were transferred to the Temporary Accommodation Centre in Pournara.
The ICF of Famagusta continues the examinations.
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In an incident that occurred on Monday afternoon at the Port of Kato Paphos, a 37-year-old traffic policeman of the Pafos Municipality was injured.
According to the spokesperson of the Pafos Police Authority and Head of the Pafos ICF, Michalis Nicolaou, at 18:30 on Monday two persons, a 37-year-old traffic policeman and a 54-year-old citizen, filed complaints with the Police, accusing each other of assaulting and beating him.
From the examinations so far, as reported by the police, it appears that the traffic policeman was talking to a third person about some kind of illegality he had committed and the 54-year-old allegedly intervened and both argued.
The 37-year-old traffic policeman claimed that he was attacked by the 54-year-old citizen, while the 54-year-old said in his complaint to the police that he was first attacked by the traffic policeman.
The traffic policeman was taken to the Accident and Emergency Department of Paphos General Hospital where he was found to have actual bodily injury and specifically abrasions.
The 54-year-old did not visit Paphos Hospital.
Written statements were taken from both of them, Nicolaou said, noting that statements will also be taken from independent witnesses to clarify the case.
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