Pafos Live 7 May 2024
Traffic police checks carried out by the Paphos Police from May 2 until this morning revealed 159 traffic complaints, most of which concerned speeding, according to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations Michalis Nicolaou.
In statements to CNA, Nicolaou said that of the 159 traffic complaints, 18 concerned driving under the influence of alcohol and 41 driving at excessive speed, and the rest other traffic offences.
Nicolaou said that in one case an 18-year-old was spotted on May 6 at 19:00 driving a car on Athinon Street at a speed of 115 instead of 50 kilometers which was the allowed limit. The 18-year-old was arrested, charged in writing and released to be summoned later.
Coordinated police operations to prevent road traffic collisions will continue, Nicolaou concluded.
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A large quantity of tobacco products was found and confiscated yesterday, inside a vehicle in Paphos, by members of the Police, during a traffic control.
Around 4:30 p.m. Yesterday, members of Team Z, of the Pafos Traffic Police, stopped for inspection, a car that was being driven on a road in Paphos, by a 44-year-old. During the subsequent search of the vehicle, 850 packets of cigarettes, 159 packets of manufactured tobacco, with a total weight of 6 kg and 875 grams, and four packets of manufactured hookah tobacco, with a total weight of three kilograms, were found.
It was found that the above products were duty-free, as a result, the 44-year-old was arrested and the products confiscated.
Both the 44-year-old and the seized tobacco products were handed over to officers of the Customs Department, which undertook the further investigation of the case. A fine of €9,000 was applied, and a fine of €12,500 against another person in the vehicle.
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Police in Paphos have made two arrests to facilitate investigations into an ongoing case of warehouse burglary and theft of various tools, vehicle theft and illegal possession of property, while the Police are seeking a third person aged 26.
According to Pafos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, on March 27, a resident of a village in the Paphos district reported that his warehouse was burglarized and various tools and his car worth €4,000 were stolen from it.
On May 2 at around 21:30, Nicolaou told CNA, the stolen vehicle was spotted driven by a 31-year-old permanent resident of Cyprus in an area of Limassol. The 31-year-old was arrested for illegal possession of property and transferred to the Paphos Police Authority.
The next day, an arrest warrant was obtained against the 31-year-old for warehouse burglary and car theft, as well as for conspiracy to commit a felony, as during the examinations it emerged that two other persons, aged 26 and 53, from the Limassol district, were involved in the case.
The 31-year-old was brought before a court on May 4 and a detention order was secured for five days.
Yesterday Easter Monday around 23:00 the 53-year-old was arrested and the police are looking for the 26-year-old.
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In the context of investigating a case concerning the offences of rioting, arson of a police vehicle and malicious damage to police vehicles, committed on 4/5/2024 in the Limassol district, the Police proceeded yesterday on the basis of a court warrant to the arrest of a person.
He is a 21-year-old man from Limassol who was detained to facilitate interrogations.
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Police arrested four people yesterday on the basis of court warrants, as part of an investigation into a case involving the offences of causing malicious damage, conspiracy to commit a felony, causing alarm, unlawful assembly, rioting, theft, illegal possession and transport of explosives.
These are minors (boys aged between 14 and 16) who have been detained to facilitate interrogations.
The Kition Police Station in cooperation with the Larnaca ICF continue the examinations.
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Unknown persons vandalized the primary school of Livadia in Larnaka district, causing damage to a classroom, as well as to the schoolyard.
The attackers burned a table and bench in the schoolyard, then smashed windows and threw books and school equipment into a classroom. The new vandalism at a school in Livadia was reported to the Oroklini Police who began investigating the incident.
It is noted that this is the third time in recent times that this school has been targeted by young people.
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A serious incident occurred at dawn in a restaurant in the center of Nicosia and specifically on Stasikratous Street.
Initial information indicates that the Police were called to respond after 03:00 in the morning to a fight incident that occurred at the said premises.
When members of the Force arrived at the scene, they saw a person of Arab origin bearing injuries.
In searches carried out by the Police, two weapons were found, one inside the premises and one outside. Initial reports indicate that it is a revolver and a pistol.
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The Judge of the Nicosia District Court, Niovi Petridou, after a marathon proceedings that began on Monday morning and ended shortly after 01:00 in the morning on Tuesday, issued a detention order for six of the nine suspects in connection with the attempted murder against Dimitris Andronikou in Anthoupoli (23/4).
For the other three, for whom a separate procedure took place, it reserved its decision, which it will announce today at noon (12:00, 7/5).
The first six along with one of the other three suspects (formally rearrested) were already under 8-day detention. As for the remaining two, one is a 43-year-old man who was sentenced to 17 years in prison (9/2021) for the attempted murder of Nikos Rodotheou in Nicosia (26/11/2018). The other suspect is of Romanian origin and was arrested last Saturday but had been released. Police linked him to the alleged shooter, although he said he did not know him.
The evidence presented by the ICF of Nicosia in the context of its new request for detention of the nine persons (from 22 to 45 years old), mainly concerns the 1st suspect, 45-year-old I.I. For the latter, always based on what he said on behalf of the investigation team, Yiannos Giannakou, written testimony emerged about his role in relation to the crime.
This written testimony shows the 45-year-old congratulating the person of Arab origin (6th suspect) who shot "Dimitroui" three times, giving him €10,000 through another person and telling the alleged executioner that he would give him €1,500 monthly for life. It is noted that the 45-year-old is alleged by the police to have taken over the leadership of a faction in Nicosia last autumn and that he came into conflict with the 34-year-old, who was trying to take control of premises, mainly betting shops.
The 5th suspect who was initially presented by the ICF of Nicosia as the driver of the scooter-type motorcycle on which the executioner was riding, based on what was said in yesterday's new court proceedings, appeared to have played the role of a thug during the execution of the plan. The 5th suspect allegedly tried to shoot the 34-year-old on two separate occasions, but because he hesitated, according to what was said by the police, the 6th suspect took over the job.
In the context of the Police's request for detention (this time read in full) there is a summary with clear references to the role allegedly played by each of the main suspects in committing the crime.
The judge, reading her judgment after midnight, said that the police witness made a good impression on her.
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Investigations by the ICF of Limassol are ongoing in relation to the shooting of shots fired at the vehicle of a 61-year-old contractor in Zakaki that occurred yesterday afternoon.
The investigators in the case obtained evidence against a specific person and subsequently applied to a judge for a judicial arrest warrant. The specific person was searched, not located and is wanted according to statements by the spokesman of the Police, Christos Andreou on the show Alpha Good Morning.
Examinations and CCTV also revealed that the perpetrators were two persons on a dark-coloured scooter. The shots were fired around 3:30 p.m. on Easter Monday at a 61-year-old contractor's vehicle parked outside his home.
Financial differences appear to lie behind the crime.
