Filenews 10 November 2023
Police have arrested a 39-year-old resident of Famagusta district to facilitate investigations into a series of burglary and theft cases committed between January and August 2023.
The perpetrators targeted EAC substations in various areas of the Famagusta district, from which copper and other objects had been stolen, the total value of which exceeds €30,000.
Testimony was obtained against the 39-year-old, during the investigation of the above cases, by the Famagusta ICF. On the basis of this testimony, a judicial arrest warrant was issued against him, under which he was arrested and detained to facilitate interrogations.
The ICF of Famagusta continues the examinations.
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Police arrested one more person yesterday to facilitate investigations into the murder of Athanasios Kalogeropoulos, committed on October 30, 2023, in Limassol.
According to the Police, he is a 22-year-old resident of Larnaka, against whom testimony emerged during police examinations and was arrested under a court warrant.
In connection with the case, two other persons, aged 41 and 44, have been arrested and are in custody. It is recalled that the murder of Athanasios Kalogeropoulos was committed around October 30 in Limassol. The victim was shot several times while in a café parking lot.
The ICF Limassol continues the examinations.
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An explosion outside a shop in the area of Makedonitissa in Engomi occurred at dawn, with police conducting examinations at the site.
Specifically, according to the Police, the explosion occurred around 02:30 in the morning outside the store in Makedonitissa, and caused damage to the entrance as well as a fire in the specific premises.
The fire was extinguished by the Fire Brigade, while the scene was cordoned off by the Police, members of which since the morning, in the presence of a pyrotechnic, are conducting examinations to determine the type of explosive device and any other evidence that can help solve the case.
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Two men arrested in the occupied north do not appear to have a connection to the murders of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos and Alexis ‘Alexoui’ Mavromichalis, Christos Andreou, the Police’s Spokesperson, told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA).
Andreou noted that one of the detainees, a holder of a German passport, is wanted in Poland, while the second man currently has no charges against him.
Andreou detailed the events, stating that on October 28, a German national arriving at Larnaca Airport was identified via the Schengen information system as wanted by Polish authorities for various offences, including involvement in criminal activities and money laundering.
The individual was in custody until October 31 and appeared before the Larnaca District Court, which ordered extradition procedures to Poland. Conditions for release included a €50,000 deposit, addition to the stop list, surrender of travel documents, and mandatory appearances at the Germasogeia Police Station.
According to Andreou, the wanted man failed to appear at the station on November 3. On November 4, information emerged that he, along with two others, attempted to travel to Turkey via the Ercan airport in occupied Nicosia, where they were apprehended due to lacking the required “entry stamp” into the occupied north.
Moreover, upon investigation, it was revealed that the second Polish man, detained in the occupied areas with the wanted individual, arrived in Cyprus at Larnaca Airport on November 2.
CNA reported that three individuals were apprehended at the illegal airport in Tymbou. Among them were the wanted German passport holder, another man detained with him, and a woman not taken into custody, unlike the two facing charges of illegal entry into the occupied territory.
Earlier on Thursday, Turkish Cypriot newspaper Haber Kibris reported that ‘authorities’ in the occupied north arrested two men on suspicion of being involved in the murder of Kalogeropoulos, while they were trying to flee Cyprus via a private jet through Ercan airport.
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Cyprus Mail
A man has been hospitalised after being stabbed by his own father in Omorphita, in Nicosia.
The man and his father reportedly engaged in an argument, before his father drew a knife and stabbed him.
Police arrested the man’s father and another individual. The victim was taken to northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital, where he is undergoing treatment.
