Filenews 28 October 2024
Around 7.00p.m. yesterday, members of the Police signalled a car driver to stop for a check, in an area of the Nicosia district.
Instead, the driver of the car did not comply with the instructions of uniformed members of the Police and committed other offenses, such as reckless and dangerous driving, overtaking in a white continuous line and irregular overtaking from the left.
The vehicle was then stopped and it was found that the driver was a 17-year-old.
During the check that followed, it was found that the 17-year-old was driving without holding a driver's license and safety certificate, while a large iron crowbar was found in his vehicle, which was confiscated.
The 17-year-old also did not wear a seat belt while driving under the influence of drugs. The person in question is expected to be charged in writing with the offences he committed in order to be summoned to court.
The Pera Chorio Police Station continues the examinations.
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A total of five suspects have been arrested so far in Limassol for attacks against foreign food distributors this week.
According to an announcement, the Limassol Police Directorate continues with intensive pace and targeted actions and operations, the investigation and detection of recent cases, Assaults, Robberies and offences related to the Law on combating certain forms and manifestations of racism and xenophobia against foreign food distributors.
In the last week, three cases have been committed and a total of five suspects aged between 15 and 36 have been arrested in these cases (5).
The examinations are continued by the investigation team that has been set up from the first moment with the assistance of other Departments / Services.
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Cyprus Mail
A 20-day-old baby died at the weekend and six more remained in intensive care on Monday after being fed ethanol while being treated at north Nicosia’s emergency hospital.
The baby, named as Mihrimah Toymuradov, had been born prematurely and was being incubated at the hospital.
As news of the issue began to break, parents and other relatives of the babies began to gather outside the hospital demanding to be informed as to what was going on and to see their babies.
However, they were kept outside the hospital, and the north’s ‘health ministry’ initially refused to make a statement on the matter.
‘Minister’ Hakan Dincyurek eventually broke his silence on Sunday evening, visiting the hospital and claiming he had not made a statement up to that point as he had been instructed not to do so by the police.
“The reason behind us providing information late is the judicial investigation. The police told us to not make a statement,” he said.
He had been informed of the situation on Saturday afternoon and confirmed that he had not informed any of the impacted families throughout the process.
This comment, as well as a claim that he had then “started calling the families” created a negative reaction among those waiting outside the hospital, who loudly disagreed with this claim.
It later transpired that Toymuradov had in fact died shortly after midday on Saturday and that her parents had been kept in the dark for a full day thereafter.
Her father Baha spoke to newspaper Kibris on Monday, and said, “we came to see our baby on Friday, and she was very healthy. They called be from the hospital on Saturday at 5.51pm. They said, ‘the baby is sick, come immediately’. We live in Kioneli, so we came as fast as we could. We arrived at 6.11pm and she was already dead.”
“They said the baby had died hours before. Why did they keep us waiting? We asked for an autopsy. They told us it would be done on Monday. We went home, then when the news suddenly came out that alcohol had been added to her food, we ran back here,” he said.
Dincyurek said he would not take any questions after giving his statement, and at this point one of the aunts of the six babies who remain in intensive care asked, “are you considering resigning?”
At this point, ‘health ministry’ undersecretary Mehmet Ali Hudaverdi told her to “not provoke” him. Hudaverdi is the same civil servant who was arrested after being involved in a mass brawl involving golf clubs in Nicosia’s old town in March.
In total, five health workers were arrested in connection with the incident, and all five appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Monday, accused of causing death by negligence.
The police representative in court said the ethanol had been mixed into the babies’ food as the health workers had “not taken any precautions”, and that the ethanol had been “stored in a five-litre water bottle which was removed from the room where baby food was prepared”.
They added that they expect to take more statements on the matter and to examine CCTV footage from the hospital, and as such requested that the five be remanded in custody for three days.
The judged acquiesced and the five will likely appear in court again on Thursday.
The remaining six babies’ situation is, according to the ‘health ministry’, “stable” and “progressing well”, while an autopsy on Toymuradov’s body is expected to take place on Monday.
