Filenews 22 August 2023 - by Dora Christodoulou
A large police operation in Chloraka has been underway since dawn today to implement the decisions taken yesterday at the Presidential Palace for the restoration of legality in the area of Chloraka.
More than 80 members of the Pafos Police Directorate, the Police Unit and the Aliens and Immigration Service, assisted by state officials of the Ministry of Interior, the Pafos District Administration, the Asylum Service and the Community Council of Chloraka, are already implementing the decision for the immediate sealing of the disputed building complex in Chloraka, which has been converted into a den of illegality and a refuge for illegal aliens residing in Paphos.
Implementing the decisions of the broad meeting under President Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace, as well as the decrees of the former Minister of Interior, Nikos Nouris, and the District Officer of Pafos, Mary Lambrou, the state authorities have sealed off the area and started registering all foreigners residing in the specific complex.
The whole process, based on the decisions announced by the Government Spokesman, Constantinos Leptybiotis, will be completed by next Friday, when those who are found to be residing in Cyprus under the status of asylum seekers will be forwarded to a residence center in Kofinou, those who are found to reside under a legal status on the island will receive two weeks to find another place to stay. while illegal aliens will be expelled from the Republic.
During the registration operation of residents in the building complex, which is now permanently sealed, the Police intensify and make permanent their presence in the area in order to ensure that illegal acts such as the relocation of people to unapproved places and the theft of goods such as electricity and water from them, will not happen again.
However, residents of Chloraka stated in the morning at the beginning of the police operation that during the night mass movements of people living there were noticed. They believe that these are illegal foreigners in Cyprus who, having been informed since yesterday of the decisions on the matter, made sure to disappear in time from Chloraka in order to avoid arrest and deportation.
This information is being investigated by the Police, who also conducted searches throughout suburban and low Paphos in order to identify any tenants in the building complex who did make sure to find a new place to stay to avoid their deportation.
