Pafos Live 20 October 2025
The Police made new arrests last night, as part of the investigation of a case of murder of Stavros Demosthenous, committed on October 17, 2025 in Limassol.
They are three men, aged 58, 39 and 30, who were arrested under court warrants and taken into custody.
It is recalled that for the same case, another person, aged 44, was arrested and is in eight-day detention.
Filenews - update - The Police made new arrests last night, as part of the investigation of a case of murder of Stavros Demosthenous, committed on October 17, 2025 in Limassol.
They are three men, aged 58, 39 and 30, who were arrested under court warrants and taken into custody. According to information, these are two Greek Cypriots who were arrested in Nicosia and a person from Greece who was arrested in Limassol. Some of them are related to the motorcycle used by the perpetrators. The three are being brought before a court today. The arrested will appear at 11.30 before the Limassol District Court.
It is recalled that for the same case, another person, aged 44, was arrested and is in eight-day detention.
Prison investigations
In statements to state radio, Police Spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou said that during the night searches were also carried out at the Prison Department for this case, without going into more details. "We must protect the testimony before us," he stressed.
Asked about this, Ms. Lambrianidou did not confirm the involvement of a second former footballer in the case.
The Police Spokeswoman said that various parameters are being examined. "There is too much investigative work, these arrests are not the end but probably the beginning, therefore we will be very careful in what we report in terms of the substance and motives that are likely to be behind this criminal act," he concluded.
One of the two Greek Cypriots, the 30-year-old, has previously occupied the authorities. In 2024, he had escaped from the Lakatamia police detention center in a way that had highlighted the security gaps.
He had removed a glass brick from his detention area with the help of an iron bar that he had removed from a toilet in the detention center. At that time, the Police were looking for him, giving his details to the public.
The TAE Limassol continues the examinations.
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Filenews
The Customs Department announced the seizure of a large quantity of tobacco products at Larnaca Airport, after the detection of a 48-year-old Turkish Cypriot passenger, who was attempting to travel to the United Kingdom with 65 boxes of cigarettes that did not bear the required marking and traceability characteristics.
The woman was arrested for flagrante delicto, while luggage and tobacco products were confiscated. She was later released, as her proposal for an out-of-court settlement of the offenses was accepted.
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In a major operation of the Anti-Drug Service (YKAN) carried out yesterday in the province of Famagusta, significant quantities of drugs were found and three arrests were made.
Specifically, 860 grams of cannabis and 270 grams of cocaine were found in the home of a 48-year-old, resulting in his arrest by virtue of a court warrant.
In two other houses, YKAN found amounts of money and ampoules of nitrous oxide, as a result of which two minors were arrested.
The investigations and examinations continue by YKAN (Famagusta Unit).
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A second "no" from a Court was received by the military man who allegedly disseminated pornographic material of his ex-lover, for threats and blackmail. He sought the cancellation of the search warrant at his home, work and vehicle, citing changes in the Police oath regarding his address.
The search warrant was issued on 22/1/2025, following a relevant complaint submitted by the appellant's former sexual partner. The offenses being investigated, which were allegedly committed during the period of June 2021 until 15/1/2025, and for which the Police requested the above warrants from the District Court, concerned the following:
Dissemination of pornographic material, threat of dissemination of pornographic material, extortion, demand of property with threats of theft, harassment with cause of fear, sexual harassment, exercise of psychological violence and conspiracy to commit a felony.
He had filed an application against the search warrant with the Supreme Court requesting the issuance of a serial type decree for its annulment. The Court rejected this request and the applicant subsequently filed an appeal against this rejection decision.
As stated in the affidavit of the police officer who requested the warrant, the applicant, a military man by profession, had entered into a love affair with the complaining, married woman. During their erotic encounters, he had secured photos and videos. At one stage, when the complainant decided to end their secret love affair, he allegedly reacted by threatening her that, if she did not reunite with him, he would publish the above material in his possession.
She is also said to have informed her husband both about their love affair and about the material he possessed. In December 2024, she even allegedly threatened her husband that if he did not pay him the sum of €100.000 he would post nude photos of his wife while, if he dared to file a complaint with the Police, he would hand over the nude photos to another person to publish.
The appellant had argued both in his application and now in his appeal, that the search warrant could not be corrected or interfered with or altered by a member of the Police, as it is an order of the Court and that only the Court could take such an action. The three Supreme Court judges who considered the appeal disagreed with this position. "It should not escape our attention that documents of this kind, such as the search warrant form and the oath accompanying the request, are placed in the form of typed documents before the Court for examination and approval. As rightly pointed out by the Court of First Instance, "it is neither illegal nor reprehensible for a member of the Police Force, who is in lawful possession of typed documents, to make a handwritten correction/modification of them, before submitting them to a Court for approval, when he finds errors or omissions made during the typing of the text".
What is important, the Supreme Court adds, is whether the Court will be satisfied, based on the content of the oath accompanying the search warrant, as it has been put before it, that the conditions of Article 27 of the Criminal Procedure Law, Cap. 155 to proceed with the issuance of the requested Warrant. As for the form of the search warrant that is submitted to the Court for approval, obviously, only after its signature, the relevant search warrant is issued, making it an order of the Court.
It is a fact, the three judges observe, that the Court of First Instance assumed that both the Search Warrant signed by the lower Court, which was detained and registered in the relevant Registry, and the document given to the Police for execution, had the same content. A conclusion that does not seem to be justified by the evidence brought to his attention. However, this element cannot have any impact on the case.
What was pointed out in the rejection decision of the Supreme Court is that the correction to the address of the appellant's place of residence in the sworn statement of the chief constable had taken place before it was brought before the lower Court to examine the request of the Police for the issuance of a search warrant.
