Pafos Live 12 March 2025
Rapid developments were taken regarding the incident of verbal assault on an infant by a kindergarten teacher in Nicosia. It is recalled that it all started with the publication of a relevant video on X, which was deleted a few hours after it was posted. However, the father of the child filed a complaint with the Police and according to the Director of Social Welfare Services, the employee in question has been fired.
According to Kyratzi, people should immediately report if they notice anything suspicious.
"And last week the SWS officers acted immediately after the briefing they had. The officers ensured that this complaint was made. If it didn't, our officers would go.
That is exactly what happened this morning. Our officers are in cooperation with the Police from early in the morning. The important thing in such cases is that people immediately inform if they notice something strange," he said.
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Police arrested a 77-year-old resident of Nicosia yesterday to facilitate investigations into the 14 mobile phones found last week in a refrigerator intended for a convict in the Central Prison.
In the same case, three other persons, aged 63, 51 and 47, were arrested and are in custody.
The phones were found as part of searches conducted on March 6, 2025, at the Central Prison. Specifically, in a warehouse of the Central Prison, where items intended for convicts are kept, a refrigerator was found, in which 14 mobile phones and 12 cables were found and confiscated.
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As part of the examinations regarding two investigated cases of robbery and arson of a car, offences committed between the dates 2/12/2024 and 11/12/2024, members of the ICF Nicosia conducted a search yesterday afternoon based on a court warrant at the home of a 23-year-old man in Nicosia.
When the members of the Police entered the house, in addition to the 23-year-old, there were two other persons aged 44 and 18.
A search followed where they found a loaded revolver with three rounds of ammunition, a quantity of methamphetamine weighing a total of approximately 120 grams, two precision scales and various other items which were taken as evidence.
The above three persons were arrested on the basis of court warrants and detained. It is recalled that, for robbery cases, two other persons are in custody.
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Pafos Press
The Anti-Narcotics Service (ANS) located and seized a large quantity of drugs in Nicosia yesterday afternoon.
Following an assessment of information, members of the Cyprus Anti-Corruption Commission (CYC) went to the offices of a courier company in Nicosia, where they located and seized a package containing six kilograms of cannabis. The package had arrived in Cyprus via shipment from abroad.
In the context of investigating the case, testimony emerged against four individuals, who were arrested pursuant to court warrants.
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Filenews
Costas Patsalides, 45, from Limassol, who is linked to the suspected group of about 80 people, was arrested a short while ago.
Patsalides was arrested on the territory of the British Bases of Episkopi and it seems that all this time he was hiding in a house.
The police had issued an arrest warrant against him in connection with an ongoing case of conspiracy to commit a felony, drawing up and circulating false documents, etc.
The 45-year-old appeared on Tik Tok and expressed his views on what police were investigating while he was on the run. Authorities had arrested a number of people in the same case.
Steps are now being taken to hand over Patsalides to the police and it is expected that tomorrow he will be brought before a court.
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Police investigations continued in Limassol after a huge quantity of fireworks, smoke canisters, flares and torches were found and confiscated at a young person's home in Limassol.
As Filenews learns, in the possession of the young man who was arrested, more than 40 boxes of multi-shot fireworks were found. Over 400 smoke canisters and torches and about 450 multi-shot handheld fireworks. Naval flares were also detected.
Authorities believe the material may have been illegally destined for the market and into the hands of young people ahead of Easter.
The Police are conducting investigations into the origin of the seized, how they were imported into our country as well as the supplier. The possible involvement of other persons in the case has also been put under the microscope of the authorities.
The young man was arrested and taken to the offices of the ICF Limassol for questioning. Today he is expected to be brought before the Limassol Court for a request for his detention.
It is reminded that the detection of the huge quantity was made after a coordinated operation by the Limassol Police Department.
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in-cyprus
Two minors appeared before the Limassol Juvenile Court on charges related to creating and distributing AI-generated pornographic material depicting fellow students and a teacher, authorities confirmed today.
The case involves high school students who allegedly used artificial intelligence applications to superimpose the faces of minors and an educator onto explicit content. Despite depicting real individuals, the images were digitally manipulated through AI technology.
The matter came to light after school personnel discovered the material and reported it to police. Investigators determined that the explicit images had been shared within a messaging application group, leading to formal charges being filed with the court.
Today marked the first closed-door hearing in the Juvenile Court proceedings. The minors face multiple serious charges including the production, possession and distribution of pornographic material and child pornography specifically.
This case follows a similar incident that was brought before the Dhekelia Court after a complaint to British Bases Police resulted in charges against a 14-year-old student. That minor pleaded guilty to distributing doctored photographs of female students at a Larnaca district gymnasium last October.
The Dhekelia Court imposed a conditional caution on the 14-year-old, with provisions allowing the case to be reopened if the minor commits the same offence within the next three years.
The October 24th incident caused significant disruption at the school involved. Female students discovered their faces had been superimposed onto explicit content that had circulated through various student social media groups the previous evening. They immediately alerted school administration, which found that teachers had also been targeted.
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Cyprus Mail
A 57-year-old kiosk owner was arrested on Tuesday cigarettes and tobacco on which tax had not been paid were found in his premises in Larnaca.
During a coordinated operation to identify tax-free products at kiosks, police located and seized the undeclared smoking products.
They found 16 boxes of cigarettes, 1,170 grams of tobacco of various brands and 200 heated cigarettes.
The owner was arrested, fined and released.
