Filenews 13 February 2025
A 29 year old private employee was shocked when his vehicle was shot at while parked outside his home.
According to a relevant announcement, yesterday morning around 9:20, the 29-year-old found damage to the windshield of his saloon car, which was parked overnight outside his home in Limassol.
He informed the Police, and members of the ICF of Limassol and the police station of Polemidia went to the spot. Tests determined that the damage was caused by a gunshot.
According to testimony, at 2:30 a.m., gunshots were heard in the area of the incident.
Members of the Ministry of Defence also visited the scene and conducted examinations. Firearm shells were also found in close proximity to the car and recovered.
The case is being examined by the ICF of Limassol.
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A six-day detention order was issued yesterday by the Larnaca District Court against an 18-year-old to facilitate police investigations into an investigated case of motorcycle theft committed in Larnaca.
According to the police, the 18-year-old was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday, while he is allegedly involved in other car thefts, which occurred recently in Larnaca.
Investigators in the case issued a warrant for his arrest in these cases as well.
In the morning, the 18-year-old was brought before the Larnaca District Court, which issued a detention order against him for six days.
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The arrest of a 24-year-old person, who was wanted for a case of conspiracy to commit a felony, causing injury, stabbing, etc., committed on 28/09/2024, in Paphos, proceeded to the Police.
It is noted that two other persons were arrested by members of the Police in the case.
According to the data under investigation, on September 28, 2024, at around 8.30 pm, in an area in Paphos, a man aged 19 and a man aged 21, were attacked by a number of persons, resulting in injuries, the first in various parts of his body and the second in the leg.
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A bomb exploded at dawn in a house located in Nicosia.
Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, a high-powered explosive device exploded at a home belonging to a 65-year-old woman.
From the first tests that have been done, he said, it appears that the explosion was due to a high-power explosive device. The explosion caused extensive damage to the entrance and walls of the house.
The 65-year-old was inside the house at the time of the explosion and did not suffer any injuries. The explosion damaged the main entrance of the house.
The scene was cordoned off by police who are continuing examinations.
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The Police proceeded with the arrest of a Probationary Police Officer, aged 20, who joined the ranks of the Police, on January 27, 2025, to facilitate investigations into an ongoing drug case.
In the same case, two other persons, aged 22, were arrested to facilitate interrogations
The following offences are being investigated against them:
- Conspiracy to commit a felony
- Illegal possession of drugs
- Illegal possession of drugs for supply purposes
- Supplying drugs to other persons
- Participation in a criminal organisation
- Money laundering
The three arrested were brought today before the Nicosia District Court, which issued an eight-day detention order against them.
The YKAN (Nicosia District Unit) is investigating the case.
Regarding the arrest of the Probationary Police Officer, the Police Leadership stresses again that the fight against corruption is its highest priority and such phenomena are unacceptable and will be treated as such.
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An immediate sentence of 15 days in prison, as well as activation of the 25-day imprisonment imposed on her with a three-year suspension in 2022, was imposed today (13/2) by the Limassol Family Court on a mother who did not comply with a court order for her child's contact with his father and her ex-husband. The father hasn't seen his child for four years.
The case had been published by Filenews, as on April 19, 2022, the Family Court, through a multi-page decision, described the relations of the two parents and the circumstances that led the case to justice. The mother was charged with disobeying a contact order by not allowing the father to see his child.
At the time, the court noted the mother's contempt for the decree, stressing that she did not respect either the court order or the father's need to maintain ties with his 7-year-old child. In addition, he stressed that the child's right of contact with his father is fundamental. According to the evidence in the case, the father had not seen his son since March 5, 2020, a fact that was not disputed.
The judge had then imposed on the mother a 25-day prison sentence suspended for three years, taking into account her remorse, as well as the fact that the decision was handed down during holidays, so that the child would not be deprived of his mother.
Despite the second chance she was given, the mother did not comply with the decision and continued to refuse to hand over the child to his father for more than two years, preventing him from exercising the visiting rights provided for in the decree.
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From 10:30 in the morning of Wednesday (12/2) the hearing for the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos was underway.
As Filenews had previously reported, the victim's wife initially testified and was examined in a short process. Subsequently, the representative of the Prosecution, Loukas Karnos, handed over a text with admitted facts, which had been agreed by both sides.
Subsequently, an eyewitness, who is included in the indictment, was called to testify before the Assize Court. This is the person who was in the parking lot and talked for a few minutes with Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, before he was murdered.
The witness's statement was read out by the representative of the Prosecution. In particular, he mentioned that he has been visiting this parking lot daily for years, as he goes swimming.
Around 8:30 in the morning, he entered his vehicle to depart, when at the same time Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, who often visited the area, arrived with his car. The witness, while inside his vehicle, greeted the victim. "I greeted him, he greeted me and asked me about the water temperature. I said it was 24 degrees."
A few seconds later, while in his car with his seatbelt fastened, he noticed a man entering the parking lot from the east." The man was wearing black clothes and a carnival mask while holding a large automatic rifle," which the witness said looked like a Kalashnikov.
Realizing that something bad was going to happen, he instinctively leaned quickly into his car, leaning on the parking brake. Soon after, he heard gunshots, which he described as isolated shots to shots rather than bursts.
He then saw Kalogeropoulos' vehicle with broken glass and immobilized on a wall, near the exit of the parking lot.
The witness said he did not notice the presence of a second assailant, nor could he see how the attackers arrived or escaped. He noted, however, that he saw a young, thin woman with her husband, who had watched the events and was in a state of shock.
After the murder, he claimed, he asked the owner of the beach restaurant if the victim was alive, to which he replied that he had probably died. The ambulance and police were then notified.
During his cross-examination by the representative of the Prosecution, the witness stated that the perpetrator held the gun close to his chest.
When asked how he reacted, he said he was in shock: "I opened the door to get out of the car, but I couldn't because I was wearing my seat belt. From the shock, I didn't understand it." After getting out of the vehicle, he sat down in the parking lot.
When asked when he left the scene, he said that about 20 minutes later he went to his office, where he took a bath. It was there that – as he said – he fully realized what had happened.
His cross-examination process followed, with lawyers for defendants 1 and 3 not asking questions of the witness.
After the completion of the cross-examination of the eyewitness, it is expected that the process of submitting evidence numbering about 250 by the evidence examiner will proceed.
