Pafos Live 6 September 2023
The start of the hearing in relation to the incidents in Chloraka was set for September 20. Today, the cases of 17 people allegedly involved in the two days of the incidents were registered.
They are 8 Greek Cypriots, 8 Syrians and one Greek expatriate. All have been released on parole. The conditions imposed on all of them are to sign a bail of €15,13, while the rest, apart from two national guardsmen and one student, will also report to police stations twice a week.
In total, police made 28 arrests in connection with the incidents. In addition to the 17 persons for whom the cases were registered, today another 11 persons have been arrested, charged or are expected to be charged in writing at the end of the examinations.
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Filenews
In the context of checks by the Customs Authorities, a check was carried out on a parcel arriving from abroad at a post office in the Famagusta district, where seven nylon packages containing a total of approximately 4.3 kg of cannabis were found in cereal packages. For the case, the YKAN (Famagusta unit) was notified for further action.
According to the police, at around 12.50 noon yesterday, a 19-year-old woman presented herself at the said post office as the recipient of the specific parcel. After receiving it, he was arrested by the members of YKAN.
The 19-year-old had arrived at the scene in a taxi driven by a 30-year-old man and another 24-year-old man. During an identity check, the 24-year-old allegedly resisted and pushed a member of the police, resulting in his arrest.
The above persons were taken to the offices of YKAN where they were re-arrested based on court warrants and detained, while the YKAN (Famagusta Unit) continues the examinations.
Also, around 12 noon yesterday, a 17-year-old went to a post office in Nicosia where he presented himself as the recipient of a specific parcel, which, as it was previously revealed, contained a quantity of cannabis weighing about three kilos.
The 17-year-old was arrested by members of the YKAN (Nicosia Unit) who were at the scene and taken to the offices where he was re-arrested on the basis of a court warrant and detained. The YKAN (Nicosia Unit) continues the examinations.
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Regarding the events in Chloraka of the previous days, the Police are registering today before the Pafos District Court cases against 17 of those arrested in the incidents, Greek Cypriots and Syrians. Another 11 people arrested have already been charged in recent days and will be summoned to justice later.
Meanwhile, two persons were charged in writing yesterday to be summoned later in a case of violation of the law on racism in Chloraka. According to the spokesman of the Pafos Police Headquarters, Michalis Nicolaou, two persons, aged 17 and 51, were charged in writing with the offences of illegal assembly, public insult as well as violation of the relevant law on racism, with a complainant of Syrian origin. The incident, he clarified, unfolded on August 27 in Chloraka when the complainant was sitting in a café on Archbishop Makarios III Avenue and the two persons allegedly attacked and insulted him in a racist way.
At the same time, AKEL's General Secretary, Stefanos Stefanou, head of the party's team, is visiting Chloraka today. The program of the tour of the Secretary General of AKEL begins at 3.30 in the afternoon with a visit to the Pafos Police Headquarters where he will attend a meeting with competent bodies.
At 4:45pm Stefanos Stefanou will go to Chloraka, where he will have a meeting at the Community Council with a delegation of the Community Council of Chloraka and at 5.30pm he will visit the disputed area of the St. Nicolas building complex and will have a meeting with local residents.
At 6.00pm the AKEL delegation will have contacts with citizens in the cafes and shops of the area and at 7.00pm he will be the speaker at a political rally at the Popular Organizations of Chlorakas.
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Cyprus Mail
A woman whose ten-year-old daughter drowned in a swimming pool in Paphos admitted on Wednesday to the charge of causing death by negligence.
The 42-year-old mother appeared on Tuesday before the Paphos Criminal Court which set the hearing of the case for October 2 and ordered that the woman remain in custody pending her trial.
According to police statement, after the court’s decision, the 42-year-old exhibited psychiatric symptoms, and was examined and referred to the Athalassa Hospital.
It is recalled that the child, who was on vacation in Peyeia, was found dead by family members on the afternoon of July 20, while her mother was in a room of the villa, in a state of intoxication and unaware of her surroundings.
Due to the condition in which she was found, the woman was transferred to the Paphos general hospital where she was treated under guard.
It is noted that the ten-year-old girl suffered from a neurogenetic disorder.
