Pafos Live 25 March 2024
A case of gaining access to child pornography, and acquiring, possessing, and distributing child pornography, is being investigated by the Police, whose members proceeded to arrest a 25-year-old man for police examinations.
The investigation of the case began after the police received information from Europol, according to which a user of a web application, uploaded through his account in this application, a number of video files containing material of sexual abuse of minors.
Examinations conducted by the Cybercrime Subdivision of the Police Headquarters revealed evidence against the 25-year-old suspect. Just before noon yesterday, the 25-year-old was arrested under a court warrant.
During a search that followed, at the residence of the 25-year-old, as well as at the residence of his relatives, where he had been located and arrested by the members of the Police, a laptop computer and five mobile phones were found and confiscated as evidence, for forensic examinations.
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Pafos Press
The Pafos Police arrested a 17-year-old minor for an investigation of a car theft case.
According to information from PafosPress, this is the third arrest of a minor in connection with the theft of this car.
The 17-year-old was arrested to facilitate investigations. Recently there has been a particular increase in car thefts and the involvement of minors worries both the Police and the social services of the state.
The three young men detailed for this case, are two from Syria and the third a Turkish Cypriot.
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Philenews
Two 15-year-olds and a 9-year-old appear to be the people who set fire to a school in Limassol early Sunday afternoon, raising the alarm of the authorities.
Following relevant information, the Police went to the Z' Primary School of Limassol, where the examinations found that the perpetrators violated the cleaners' area and after taking the keys, they violated five classrooms and in one of them set fire to books.
The fire caused damage to the walls of the hall and burned a wooden furniture. In addition, the perpetrators breached the offices of the school principals, causing damage.
According to information, the examinations carried out revealed testimony against three minors, two 15-year-olds and a 9-year-old, who were summoned to the ICF of Limassol and were handled in accordance with the legislation on juvenile offenders.
The two 15-year-olds were charged in writing while the 9-year-old has no criminal responsibility.
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A gang of Syrians is believed to be behind the major robbery committed a month ago at the home of a well-known businessman in Larnaca. After the arrest of a 40-year-old and an 18-year-old, police also handcuffed a 23-year-old man from Syria who allegedly sold rings at a jewellery store in Nicosia.
The robbery was reported on February 19 by the businessman's 58-year-old wife, who experienced moments of terror with her two domestic workers. At dawn on the same day, four masked men, wearing gloves, entered the house and at the threat of garden scissors confined the 58-year-old and the two domestic workers in a bedroom on the first floor of the house, located in the Faneromeni area.
After seizing their mobile phones and the gold they were wearing, the attackers forced the 58-year-old, according to her complaint, to open the safe from which they snatched watches and gold items worth €188,000 and €4,000 in cash. After processing the CCTV footage, it was found that the perpetrators were five and that they were transported with a specific vehicle stolen from Limassol and found abandoned in the Germasogeia riverbed. According to philenews, police found that two of the rings stolen were sold by the 23-year-old at a specific jewellery store in Nicosia for €1,900.
The owner of the jewellery store told police that he melted the jewellery, but handed over the details of the person who sold it. Thus, the 23-year-old Syrian was arrested, who today (24/3) was remanded in custody for 8 days by the Larnaca District Court. A 40-year-old man from Syria was arrested a few days ago after allegedly selling the businessman's wife's watch to a jewellery store in Lebanon.
The watch was spotted on a social media platform and then at the jewellery store, whose owner revealed that it was forwarded to him by people who contacted him from Cyprus. The 40-year-old is in custody while the involvement of an 18-year-old arrested on the same day is being investigated. The examinations of the ICF of Larnaca continue in order to identify the remaining members of the gang involved in the robbery.
