Pafos Press 13 January 2025
Every day the authorities receive information and complaints about the theft of various objects, either from houses or even from various other places. The phenomenon of vehicle theft is unfortunately common in recent years. What happened in Tala seems to surpass all precedent.
According to a complaint that reached PafosPress, this time the thieves seem to have outdone themselves.
They looted an entire digger which was parked in a field until its owner found out this morning that it was …”making wings”.
The registration number of the excavator that was stolen is EXM 865 and it is yellow in colour as you can see in the photo.
The owners via PafosPress are appealing to the public to help locate the digger. Anyone with information that may lead to the location of the digger is asked to contact the nearest police station at 199, 26806060 or the owners at 99087461 (Aggelos Aggeli)
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Thirty-five traffic complaints were made as part of a campaign by the Paphos Traffic Police to prevent crime and traffic collisions in the last 24 hours.
According to the Police, members of the Paphos traffic police, in collaboration with the Paphos Police Department, as part of a coordinated operation, carried out 126 checks and registered 35 traffic complaints from 07:00 Saturday morning until 07:00 Sunday.
Of the 35 complaints, two were related to driving under the influence of alcohol, and the rest to other traffic violations, such as driving without a driver's license, without a license, without a helmet, without lights, without hands-free.
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An 18-year-old man was arrested on the evening of Sunday 12 January to facilitate police investigations into two investigated cases of robberies by food distributors in Larnaca, which occurred recently.
According to police, the 18-year-old was arrested under court arrest warrants and offences involving theft from cars and possession of an offensive instrument are also being investigated against him.
The young man will appear today before the Larnaca District Court for a detention order.
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A police officer who was not on duty at the time got into a fight between two men who were loading a water heater they had stolen into the car.
According to the police, the incident took place on Sunday night, around 19:15 and while the sergeant of the Polemidia Police Station was driving his personal car on Andokidou Street in Germasogeia, being out of duty, he noticed two men placing a solar tank plate (water heater) in the luggage compartment of a rental car.
After following them, they stopped in an adjacent field, nearby on the same road. The sergeant, who was wearing his service uniform, approached them and after checking their details, it was found that they were a 34-year-old and a 46-year-old resident of Limassol. Immediately, patrols of the Limassol Police went to the area for help.
From a subsequent search of the car, between the hours of 19:40 – 19:50, the following were located and received as evidence:
1. A hammer with a red and black handle.
2. A skepparni with a yellow and black handle.
3. A cigarette with a wooden handle.
4. An orange coloured dragon mineral.
5. A metallic crab, coloured red.
6. An Ultrafire brand black lantern.
7. A metal sheet metal cutter with grey handles.
8. A pliers with blue handles.
9. Two polygonal wrenches for screws with numbers 19 and 10.
10. A Swedish wrench with a black handle (200 mm).
11. A cutter with yellow and red handle, brand Force.
Based on the above, on the same day at 20:00, the suspects were arrested for the offense of possession of burglary tools during the night.
Limassol Police are investigating the case.
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He went to deliver food to a prisoner, but it turned out to be drugs.
According to the Police, this incident took place on Sunday evening at Limassol Central Station, where a foreigner arrived around 20:10 to hand over two bags of food for an administrative detainee.
During the food check, the on-duty police officer found, in a package of potato chips, a piece of paper containing inside a small amount of green, dry, plant matter, which looked like cannabis. Also, from a search of the foreigner, he handed over a second piece of paper with a small amount of green, dry, plant matter, which also looked like cannabis, which was in his pocket.
According to a police announcement, the Limassol YKAN was informed, which carried out a sample test with a negative result. The documents were received by the YKAN for further examinations.
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Rapid developments are taking place around the death of a 24-year-old man from Pakistan, who was found dead in an open space on the Acropolis on the night of the Epiphany and as it turned out he had been shot by a police officer in an area in Potamia two hours earlier.
Yesterday, the Attorney General decided to appoint an independent criminal investigator, senior lawyer Nino Kekko, to supervise the investigations, while at the same time the Council of Ministers decided to appoint an investigating officer for any responsibilities of forensic pathologist Nikolas Charalambous, who is expected to be suspended. The survey will be conducted by the Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Andreas Gregoriou.
At the same time, investigations to clarify the tragic incident continue on many levels, while the picture of events began to become clearer. According to information provided by "F", it appears that yesterday the Police moved quickly and examined all three official vehicles that went to Potamia (one double cab that was involved in the incident and two others that went afterwards). The forensic examination showed that the vehicles are clean, meaning they have no blood, genetic material or anything else related to the deceased.
Although investigations are ongoing, it does not appear that the Pakistani man was transported from the scene to Potamia in an official vehicle. Most likely, those who were with him in the vehicle when he was shot carried him and abandoned him at the spot where he was found almost two hours after the incident. It is possible that they tried to provide him with care, hence he was found without clothes from the waist up and no blood, which indicates that an attempt was made to clean the wound.
Also, according to the same information, the testimonies given so far reveal the following: The three members of the Anti-Poaching Unit of the MMAD who went to Potamia had information that various types of smuggling and migrant smuggling take place at this point. Around 8 p.m., on Epiphany, they noticed people on foot and a vehicle without registration numbers coming at them. Then a constable got out of the service vehicle and fired two shots, one in the air and one towards the tires of the vehicle. Then a second vehicle with numbers of the pseudo-state moved against the police, when a second constable got off and fired two more shots towards the tires. The vehicle of the perpetrators collided with that of the police and fled. The three police officers have already given initial statements and this afternoon, following the suggestion of tents, they were interrogated to answer questions from the examiners of the ICF of Nicosia.
Regarding the body of the 24-year-old, when he was found at the scene, members of the ICF, the central police station of Nicosia and the forensic pathologist Nicholas Charalambous went to the scene. The coroner found a small hole in the shoulder blade (the victim was half-naked) and removed a small stone from it. He assumed that the wound was from the stone, so he asked that it be kept as evidence. It prima facie ruled out criminal activity. He decided to perform the autopsy four days later, when it showed that his death was caused by a gunshot.
The Police as soon as the bullet was found in the body and since that night there were no shots fired in the area but only in Potamia, immediately linked the two incidents, with the leadership asking that all members of the Anti-Poaching Squad deposit their weapons in order to pass through ballistic testing. The check identified a service weapon with the fireball. As we have been told, this in itself shows the will of the Police for transparency and no attempt at a cover-up was made.
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As part of the investigation into the incidents that took place in Limassol, at the Nikos Solomonides indoor stadium, police proceeded on Sunday, based on a court warrant, to arrest another person.
This is a 24-year-old man who was detained to facilitate interrogations.
It is recalled that for these incidents, three more young persons aged 15, 16 and 19 were arrested, while another young person aged 17 was identified, questioned and charged in writing.
Photographs of wanted persons were also made public.
The vandalism at the Nikos Solomonides Indoor Stadium was caused on the evening of January 2, 2025. According to the evidence under investigation, unknown persons entered the stadium, damaged equipment and stole sports material.
The ICF Limassol continues the examinations.
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A case of attempted theft from a photovoltaic park is being investigated by the Police.
According to its announcement, on Sunday, January 12 at 20:20, the contractor at a photovoltaic park in the village of Kouka in Limassol reported to the Platres Police Station that on the same day and time unknown persons illegally entered the photovoltaic park and attempted to steal 120 meters of copper cables measuring 4 x 185 mm, causing damage to them amounting to €12,000.
On the same day and upon receipt of the complaint, members of the Platres and Lania Police Station went to the area to locate the perpetrators.
During investigations and after following possible escape routes, at 21:30 in Trimiklini they stopped for inspection a car brand Suzuki Vitara, white color, without registration plates, which resembled a description given by a car that escaped from the photovoltaic park.
From a check, the car in question was driven by a 50-year-old man. A subsequent search of his car found two scissors, a battery chip, a pair of black gloves, a black hood and a headlamp.
The suspect was arrested for the offence of possession of burglary tools overnight and taken into custody.
Platres Police Station is examining.
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The investigations of the ICF of Limassol are in full swing after a dead woman was found in the parking lot of an apartment building on Zagreos Street in Germasogeia.
According to philenews' latest information, she is a 35-year-old woman from Russia. The body was found by a cleaner of the apartment building who immediately informed the authorities.
A new case of sexual offences against a cleric is being examined by the Investigative Committee of the Holy Synod following a complaint by a person whose testimony was leaked on a website in Greece that deals with Church issues.
According to the allegations contained in the complaint, the cleric in question (he was a witness in the case of Saint Habakkuk Monastery) is gay and allegedly paid at least one person for having paid sex with men and women. The complainant describes in detail various scenes, which carry the penalty of deposition.
The witness in his testimony strongly supports Abbot Nektarios and claims that he was the victim of a plot. For the cleric whom he denounces, he acknowledges that he helped him financially at some point in his life (when needed) but says that he denounces him for his attitude towards Nektarios, whom he knows quite well.
The accused cleric had exchanged some scandalous messages for which he was suspended by Metropolitan Isaiah of Tamassos for a period of six months, before this complainant testified.
However, the person who denounced the cleric claims that the messages were sexual in nature and that he himself had sex with him.
The complainant states in his testimony (to the Holy Synod Inquisitorial) that he knows other clergy who are homosexual, but clarifies that he does not denounce them because they have not done anything to him.
The accused cleric allegedly also sent the complainant nude photographs of a person with whom he allegedly had sex in Thessaloniki. He even allegedly asked the complainant to send him nude photos.
