Pafos Live 16 October 2025
In the context of an investigation into a case of burglary and theft, committed on 28/9/2025 in Limassol, a 17-year-old was arrested yesterday by virtue of a court warrant to facilitate investigations. The 17-year-old was spotted yesterday morning driving a car on a Limassol road, which had been declared stolen on 14/10/2025.
Specifically, the vehicle in question was spotted yesterday morning by a member of the Police, violating a red light without however being able to stop it. A little later, the car in question was seen again and after a signal was signalled by a police officer, to the driver to stop, however he developed speed and tried to escape.
In the attempt of the driver of the car to avoid control, he allegedly committed a series of traffic violations while at some point on the road, he collided with a passing car and then, after crashing into the wall of a house, he was immobilized. The driver got out of the vehicle and tried to escape on foot. However, he was stopped by the member of the Police who had followed him and arrested him for flagrante delicto.
This is a 17-year-old resident of Limassol who was taken to the Limassol Police Department where he was re-arrested by virtue of a court warrant pending against him.
In a physical search carried out on the 17-year-old, a bag containing dry cannabis plant matter weighing about 12 grams was found in his possession, a smoking glass vessel with traces of a burnt substance resembling methamphetamine, while in a preliminary drug test he underwent, the indication was positive.
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Filenews
The 34-year-old man who was arrested in connection with the shootings that took place in the area of Agios Ioannis, in Limassol, was put in the cell for a period of eight days. It is recalled that the incident was initially reported to the Police on the night of October 13, when information was received from a property owner that there were firearm casings on the street. Members of the Police rushed to the scene, where they found four empty shell casings.
The suspect was brought before the Limassol District Court today for a request for his detention, while offenses related to illegal possession and transport of a firearm, illegal possession and transport of explosives and firing shots in a residential area are being investigated against him. The Court approved the request of the Police and ordered his detention.
As Filenews is informed, the check carried out through closed surveillance circuits revealed that the 34-year-old suspect was riding a large motorcycle and was followed by a woman who was moving on foot. According to the footage, the two people stopped at some point on the road, talked, and then the man pulled out a pistol and fired four times in the air before leaving.
CCTV footage showed that around 03:37 in the morning, three people - two women and a man - were moving on foot in the area, while a large motorcycle driven by a young man was following them. The perpetrator allegedly approached one of the women and spoke to her, while insisting on boarding with him. When she refused to get on the motorcycle, the perpetrator pulled out a pistol and fired four times in the air before leaving the scene.
During the interrogation, the woman testified that for the past six months she had been in a relationship with the suspect, which she recently broke off when she was informed that he had a child with another woman. On the night of the incident, the 34-year-old approached her at a club where she worked occasionally, trying to approach her again.
Later, as she was walking away with her friends, the suspect followed her on the motorcycle, trying to convince her to follow him. After an argument, the man pulled out the pistol and fired into the air. The 34-year-old was arrested yesterday and, according to the Police, refused to answer the questions of the investigators of the Limassol TAE. The motorcycle and the gun remain missing, while it is being investigated where the firearm was obtained from.
The Police continue to examine and take statements, while the suspect's lawyer did not object to the request for an eight-day detention of his client.
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The 24-year-old Filipino woman, who had been arrested on suspicion of her partner's death, was released until the completion of the examinations. The pregnant woman, after being detained for two eight-day periods, was finally released without charge, until the relevant investigations were completed. It is recalled that the investigators of the TAE Limassol requested last week the renewal of her detention.
From the on-site examinations carried out in the apartment where the suspect and the victim lived, various items were identified, which were sent for specialized laboratory tests. Specifically, a pair of cooking scissors with a broken handle were taken from the apartment, as well as a grey-red substance on the wall behind the door of the room, near the window through which the victim allegedly climbed.
Among the items sent to the laboratories are fingerprints found on the aluminum of the window, at the point where the victim tried to enter the balcony. The fingerprints were identified with the victim. The 24-year-old, as heard during the process of renewing her detention, allegedly had a parallel love affair with another person. Testimonies state that the victim suspected infidelity.
It should be noted that the 24-year-old was examined by medical examiners Angeliki Papetta and Orthodoxos Orthodoxou and preliminarily small, old abrasions were found on the wrist of her hand. In a new testimony on October 5, the 24-year-old was asked 60 questions, but did not answer any. Five investigations have been carried out into the case and more than 33 testimonies have been taken. For the time being, the results of the scientific examinations are awaited.
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A disturbance was caused yesterday afternoon in the indoor gym of the Solea High School in Evrychou, when a drunk with wild moods entered the area, while children were training.
According to the complaints of local residents, the man entered the sports hall and threatened girls, as a result of which a coach intervened to remove him by mobilizing his knowledge of martial arts
According to the Police, the perpetrator smelled of alcohol and seems to have been in a state of intoxication. He hit an adult in the face and fled.
He is a 33-year-old man, who was arrested shortly afterwards and taken into custody to appear before the Nicosia District Court today. However, the residents of the area complain that this particular man has been circulating in the area for the last few days and harassing citizens.
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Cyprus Mail
A man arrested at Nice airport on Monday owns a large construction firm in northern Cyprus, with his arrest having been confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by diplomatic sources on Tuesday.
The man, named as 39-year-old Behdad Jafari was arrested after arriving at Nice airport on an inbound flight from Istanbul on Monday, with it understood that he was arrested on the basis of a warrant put out by the Republic of Cyprus’ authorities in relation to his construction company, named Isatis.
Isatis was founded in 2015, and over the last decade has carried out various construction projects, primarily in and around the Famagusta district village of Ayios Sergios, but also in and around Trikomo and the Famagusta district village of Akanthou, among other locations.
It has not yet been confirmed whether those properties were built on land which was owned by Greek Cypriots prior to 1974.
Jafari is Iranian by birth, and was naturalised as a citizen of the ‘TRNC’ in May 2023, on the same day as Fatih Buyuktopcu, the owner of newspaper Kibris.
He had obtained a multiple entry visa to visit France on July 25 from the country’s embassy in Ankara, using his Iranian passport, with that visa having been set to expire next week.
Reports of his arrest had provoked the fury of Turkish Cypriot contractors’ association Cafer Gurcafer, who told news website Kibris Postasi that it is “becoming increasingly impossible for Turkish Cypriot capital to open up to the world”.
“We can no longer go anywhere in the world. We are trapped in northern Cyprus … Doing business in northern Cyprus is not easy. How can investments be made if 85 per cent of the land faces the same legal problems?”
He also criticised the Turkish Cypriot authorities for doing “completely nothing” about the matter, and said they have “not supported” the Immovable Property Commission, which had been set up in 2005 with the aim of resolving issues related to property in the north with a view to a federal solution to the Cyprus problem.
“We are disappearing. Either we will resolve this issue diplomatically, or we will disappear. There is no other way,” he said.
He also likened Jafari’s situation to that of Israeli businessman Simon Aykut, who on Monday plead guilty to 40 charges related to the development and sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north.
“A citizen of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has been captured. What are we doing? What diplomatic initiative are we taking? Nothing. Just like Simon Aykut, he has been left to his fate,” he said, before decrying the fact that “we have not even attempted to set up a meeting to resolve these issues”.
Aykut’s guilty plea is not the first to be entered as part of the ongoing arrests of individuals regarding the alleged illegal use, development, and sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north.
In May, two Hungarian women were sentenced to two and a half years and 15 months in prison respectively after advertising the sale of houses in the north on their social media accounts and websites.
Meanwhile, a German woman who was arrested after having a conversation aboard a flight with Elam member of the European parliament Geadis Geadi in which prosecutors allege that she admitted to selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north remains in custody.
The north retaliated in July, arresting five Greek Cypriots near Trikomo.
One of the five Greek Cypriots has been charged with illegally entering the north when the five crossed into the north via the Strovilia crossing point, near Famagusta, on July 19, while the other four are accused of aiding and abetting the illegal entry. The five Greek Cypriots deny the charges.
It is expected that a verdict will be handed down in that case on Monday.
Meanwhile, two of the five will next appear at a civilian court in Trikomo next Tuesday.
There, they face charges of privacy violations, which they allegedly committed while in Trikomo on July 19. The remaining three Greek Cypriots had earlier faced charges of trespassing and breaching the peace, but those charges were dropped on October 1.
All five remain on bail, with the north’s supreme court having found in two separate cases that earlier remand orders against them had been handed down illegally.
