Pafos Live 16 August 2024
Police in Limassol handcuffed two people yesterday afternoon, who allegedly lit a fire in an area of the Trooditissa state forest. They claim to have tried to light hookah.
According to the Police, yesterday at 6 pm information was given to the Platres Police Station that near the picnic area in Trooditissa two persons lit a fire in a state forest.
Members of the Police went to the area where they found two persons, aged 22 and 21, in possession of hookah, charcoal and lighters.
According to the testimony of the members of the Police, those arrested were seen lighting a small fire, with wood in a ravine with wild vegetation in a state forest, which they extinguished themselves as soon as they were noticed.
Under questioning, the suspects said that they went to the scene in order to smoke hookah and that they lit the fire in order to light the hookah coals, since, as they claimed, the gas they had with them did not work.
A judicial arrest warrant was issued against them and they were arrested for offences including causing a fire in a state forest. In the morning they are expected to be brought before the Limassol District Court for a detention order. The scene was put under guard and examinations are ongoing.
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Filenews
Yesterday, 15/8/2024 at around 21:20, members of the Limassol OPE and the MMAD stopped a car driven by a 27-year-old man for inspection on Franklin Roosevelt Street.
During the check, he was found in possession of an amount of €6683 for which he did not give sufficient explanations for the legality of his possession.
As a result, he was arrested for the offence of illegal possession of property and detained.
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8 young Africans who tried to cross from the free areas to the occupied areas through a military area in the area of Afania – Ornithi were detained yesterday. Their goal, they told the Nicosia "district court", was to take advantage of the "labour amnesty" they heard the pseudo-state was granting and to remain in the occupied areas.
The Turkish Cypriot press reports today that the eight persons crossed by car to the military area in the occupied areas. After their "arrest" a quantity of narcotic substance was found in the purse of one. To find out what kind of substance it is, the "police" requested and obtained a two-day warrant to "detain all suspects."
Dialog, referring to the news today, comments that lately there has been an increase in illegal immigrants going from the Greek Cypriot side to the occupied areas and this is probably due to the "law" on "labour amnesty" that is still in force and concerns the "illegal" workforce in the pseudo-state that will be able to get "residence and work permits".
Moreover, Havadis writes today that one person was "arrested" in a "police" operation in occupied Nicosia for transporting more than one kilogram of narcotics from "south to north", with the newspaper commenting that in the past it was the reverse of trade, from the occupied to the free areas.
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Cyprus Mail
Police in Kyrenia arrested two would-be hitmen on Wednesday night, with the pair having allegedly travelled to the north to kill a “businessman”.
Police officer Cemal Sanlier explained in court on Thursday that the pair had been pulled over for a routine traffic stop at around 8.30pm on Wednesday while driving a hire car through Kyrenia.
He said that “reasonable suspicion” was then raised regarding the pair’s intentions, and a search of the vehicle was ordered.
The search turned up a 9mm Glock pistol and 12 bullets, which had been left in the car’s glovebox.
The pair were both arrested, and further investigations determined that one had arrived in Cyprus on August 8, and the other had arrived on Wednesday.
Additionally, a search of one of the pair’s mobile phones found a text message he had sent which read, “uncle, send us 20,000TL, we will buy a mask and other things, we have to make preparations, so we are not recognised.” 20,000TL is worth €542.
Other messages sent and received included a picture of a businessman based in the north, the registration plate of the “businessman’s” personal car, and other messages related to a planned assassination.
A message on the other man’s phone read, “we are following him, and when we see him, we will get him, don’t you worry.”
The identity of the “businessman” who the pair intended to kill has not yet been made public.
Sanlier said a “large-scale” police investigation is underway, and that they intend to examine CCTV footage, more text messages and phone calls, and other evidence. As a result, he requested that the pair be remanded in custody for a day.
Judge Hazal Hacimulla acquiesced, and the pair are set to appear in court again on Friday.
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The Greek Cypriot man who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen two caravans in the north was admitted to intensive care after falling ill, it was revealed on Thursday.
The man, reportedly aged 60, was arrested on August 8, and most recently appeared in court on Monday.
His latest hearing, held on Thursday upon the expiry of a three-day remand, was held in absentia, with the police representative in court explaining that the man had fallen in on Wednesday and been taken to intensive care.
The representative explained that the police believe his most recent theft took place at around 5.40am on August 6, when he stole a caravan which had been parked off the central Belediye boulevard in Kioneli’s Yenikent suburb.
The police had later found the caravan near Louroujina. It belonged to a resident of Famagusta and had been parked in Yenikent for weeks prior to its theft.
The representative then said that investigations had led police to believe that the same man was responsible for the theft of another caravan, which had been parked next to the King Autos used car showroom off the dual carriageway linking Morphou and Famagusta.
That caravan had been stolen at around 6am on April 13 and has not yet been found.
Additionally, the representative said that police believe the man had entered the north illegally near Louroujina rather than use a crossing point.
For this, he had been taken to military court on August 9 for the crime of violating a military controlled area, as is customary for all those who enter the north from the Republic without using crossing points.
During that hearing, police said they had found 103 cartons of cigarettes, seven cartons of rolling tobacco, one carton of hookah tobacco, and 25 cartons of tobacco sticks for electronic cigarettes, all of which had been smuggled to the north from the Republic.
However, no mention of tobacco products was made at Thursday’s hearing.
With the police’s investigation into the matter still ongoing, and one of the two caravans still having not yet been found, judge Nuray Necdet ordered that the man’s remand be extended for another eight days.