Pafos Live 24 August 2023
Checks continued yesterday afternoon at the Agios Nikolaos apartment complex in Chloraka for registration of migrants living there, following the decision taken last Monday at the Presidential Palace, in the context of which another 60 persons were registered.
According to the spokesperson of the Pafos Police, Michalis Nicolaou, yesterday afternoon, from 15:30 to 18:30, 52 police officers of the Pafos Police Authority, the Paphos Police Force and the MMAD, in cooperation with officers of the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare and the Asylum Service of the Ministry of Interior, carried out checks in apartments where migrants reside to register their details.
According to Nicolaou, an additional 60 people were found from the searches carried out in apartments in which there were no persons in previous searches, whose details were recorded in order to follow the procedure as decided, i.e. either they will be taken to the refugee reception area in Kofinou or another place will be found to continue their stay in Cyprus.
During the above registration process, Nicolaou added, a 32-year-old person from Nigeria was also identified, who is illegally present on the territory of the Republic of Cyprus. The 32-year-old was arrested to follow all legal deportation procedures.
Furthermore, Nicolaou said, today from 5 o'clock in the morning a new operation is underway to record the migrants' data, with the participation of a large number of police officers in order to exhaust all possibilities to fully record the data of all those living in the apartment complex. The results of today's tests will be announced later in the day. It should be noted that the first data recording operation revealed that 81 people lived in the apartments checked, of which 39 men, 17 women and 25 minors.
Source: CNA
