Pafos Live 5 September 2023
A 25-year-old Bulgarian man has been arrested by police in Paphos for cases of burglary and theft. According to police, the 25-year-old has been linked to two cases of theft from a parked car and burglary of a residence.
It is not excluded that his involvement in other burglaries and thefts that have been reported recently in the city and district of Pafos may be proven.
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A summer case was solved by the police proceeding to the arrest yesterday afternoon of a 34-year-old resident of Paphos.
According to the head of the ICF of Pafos, Michalis Nicolaou, on July 30, a 28-year-old man reported that on the same night around 23:30 a person who lives in a neighbouring apartment for no reason or reason violated the door of his apartment by force, entered his apartment and wounded him with a sword, causing a laceration to his scalp, as well as injuries to his right arm and middle finger. The 28-year-old went to the Accident and Emergency Department of Paphos General Hospital and after receiving first aid he was dismissed.
Further examinations revealed that the person who attacked him was a 34-year-old man, against whom an arrest warrant was issued and was only identified yesterday. The 34-year-old faces the offences of burglary, assault with intent to cause cause bodily harm, wounding and stabbing.
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The police proceeded to arrest a foreigner who forcibly wanted to establish relations with a 24-year-old woman, also a foreigner. Police are investigating a complaint by the girl that the man held her in detention in order to "persuade her to have an affair with him".
According to the head of the ICF of Pafos, Michalis Nicolaou, on July 26 at about 00:30, a 24-year-old permanent resident of Pafos reported that on two occasions a person who knows and maintains friendly relations with him, against her will, had placed her in his car, and then he moved to his home where he had her confined. The complainant attributed his behaviour to "having feelings for her and she was unresponsive." According to the 24-year-old, on two occasions, on July 20 and 24, for a period of two days in each case, he grabbed her by force, without suffering any sexual abuse but was under confinement.
The complainant also said that the alleged perpetrator stole her mobile phone so that she could not communicate and ask for help.
In both cases, the 24-year-old managed to escape him. An arrest warrant has been issued against the person concerned. He was finally arrested on Monday afternoon and taken into custody.
The offences faced by the alleged perpetrator are robbery, abduction and psychological violence and violence against women.
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Members of the Police stopped yesterday at around 6.30pm, for checking, a vehicle driven by a 34-year-old man, on the Nicosia-Limassol motorway by the exit of Pera Chorio.
In a subsequent search inside the vehicle, the amount of 7,150 euros and a large quantity of duty-free products were found, while officers of the Department of Customs and Excise were called to the scene, where they recorded the items. These are 95 boxes of various brands of cigarettes, 15 packs of cigarettes, 75 boxes of e-cigarettes, 54 packs of tobacco.
The case was settled out of court with the payment of the sum of €15,000 by the 34-year-old.
At the same time, the 34-year-old underwent a preliminary drug test with a positive indication, while driving without a safety certificate.
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French-Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who had a pending European arrest warrant for fraud in Romania, was handcuffed as soon as he set foot in Cyprus. His arrest has been the subject of international press coverage since Sunday, which has been covering the case extensively.
The tycoon, who is one of the richest people in Israel, owns diamond mining and energy industries and is also active in real estate. His name has been implicated in corruption scandals internationally, culminating in his prison sentence by a court in Bucharest for his involvement in a business group that allegedly attempted to secure illegal land rights in Romania.
According to the Times of Israel, Steinmetz found himself at the center of the scandal when, as a partner and adviser to the group, he bought the rights to land belonging to a Romanian prince. Romanian authorities ruled that fraud was behind the transaction that cost the country €135 million. The 67-year-old businessman was sentenced in absentia in 2020 to five years in prison for creating an "organised criminal group" in connection with land transactions made between 2006 and 2008. Since then, a European warrant has been pending against him and he was arrested by several European countries but released.
The billionaire was arrested in Cyprus last Thursday when he arrived from Greece at Larnaka airport. The next day he was brought before the Larnaca District Court, which ordered his detention until September 8, in order to translate the European warrant against him. As "F" is informed, the tycoon will be represented in court by a well-known Cypriot criminal lawyer.
Beny Steinmetz's arrest was confirmed on Sunday by his spokesman in a press release republished by all major international agencies. The 67-year-old's spokesman said he was arrested in Larnaca "due to a European arrest warrant issued by Romanian authorities, which has already been cancelled in several European countries, including Greece and Italy." His spokesman said the 67-year-old businessman "welcomes the opportunity to get justice in yet another European state against Romania, a country notorious for its disrespect for human rights."
The businessman also has adventures with the Swiss judiciary, having been found guilty of corruption in a case involving obtaining exploration permits for iron ore deposits in Guinea. He has been sentenced to three years in prison for the case, but will not serve a prison sentence for now due to his intention to appeal his conviction to the country's Supreme Court. The businessman has been living in Israel for the past few years in a luxurious mansion that is described as one of the most expensive in the country.
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She sought affection and love, feelings she did not have the opportunity to receive from her real parents and was placed in foster care so that she could grow up in a healthy environment.
In the end, she reportedly lived for a whole year the ultimate nightmare at the hands of her foster parent. The reason, for a 14-year-old girl who recently decided to break her silence and reveal what was happening in the house where she was growing up, to her foster mother, with the case reaching the hands of the authorities.
According to the complaint filed by the Headquarters' Office of Family Violence and Child Abuse, the 14-year-old was sexually abused by her 49-year-old foster father. What the underage girl was experiencing took place for a whole year behind the closed doors of the house where she was growing up.
The minor managed to overcome her fears and confide what she was experiencing to her foster mother and partner of the now 49-year-old defendant. The latter, according to reliable information of "F", reported the case to the competent Department of the Police Headquarters, with investigators proceeding to arrest the 49-year-old last week.
As "F" is aware, the 49-year-old's detention order expired yesterday and the examiners of the case brought him back before the Limassol Court, requesting in a closed-door procedure, the registration and referral of the case for trial to the Assize Court. The defendant's lawyer did not object to his client's detention and the Court referred the case to a direct trial before the Limassol Assize Court, which is due to meet in mid-October 2023.
The indictment includes offences relating to sexual abuse of a minor, sexual exploitation and the offence of rape. The offences were committed in the last year, while "F" reports that the victim had been given to the foster family for the last two to three years.
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A new allegation of gang rape by a 20-year-old British woman who says she was the victim of Israelis holidaying in Ayia Napa has caused uproar in the area.
The serious allegation and its circumstances, which resemble the case of the 19-year-old who four years ago claimed that 12 youths from Israel gang-raped her, have once again turned the eyes of the international press on the tourist resort.
According to information from police sources, the 20-year-old tourist made the complaint on Sunday night. In a state of shock, she went to the Famagusta ICF and claimed that she was raped successively by a number of Israelis in a hotel room in Ayia Napa. The girl said she was staying at another tourist accommodation and that she went with her friends to the hotel where she was having a pool party.
According to her complaint, at some point while she was in the hotel pool she was approached by an Israeli, who began flirting with her. The young man then allegedly took her to the hotel room and raped her along with other people in the area.
Following the complaint, police yesterday morning arrested five Israelis, two 20-year-olds and three 19-year-olds, who are suspected of gang rape of the girl, who was examined yesterday by a forensic pathologist. The suspects were brought yesterday before the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni, which ordered their detention for a period of 8 days.
In addition to the Israelis, police will also take statements from friends of the 20-year-old, who were in the pool area. Important for the course of the case are also the results of scientific examinations from evidence taken from the room of the Israelis.
The 20-year-old's complaint attracted international media attention, with reports in the Israeli and especially British press extensive. In their online editions, newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Mirror link this case to that of the 19-year-old British woman, recalling that she was acquitted a year and a half ago by the Supreme Court and that she had denounced the Cypriot authorities.
The 19-year-old British woman had reported being gang-raped by 12 Israelis on July 17, 2019. She had subsequently withdrawn her complaint and was taken as a defendant to the Famagusta District Court, which in January 2020, amid expressions of support for the girl, sentenced her to four months suspended imprisonment for public harm. Her lawyers subsequently filed an appeal, and in January 2022 the Supreme Court acquitted and acquitted her. The young woman had claimed that she had been forced to withdraw her complaint "under pressure and under the instructions of the Cypriot police".
Israeli media recorded the event with a different lens, noting that the news came amid the important diplomatic visit to Cyprus of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Jerusalem Post reports that the country's Foreign Ministry was informed about this and that it notified the families of those arrested.
