Pafos Live 28 October 2025
According to the data under examination, around 4.20 in the morning yesterday Monday, a fire broke out in a car, owned by a company, while it was parked, in a vehicle parking lot, in an apartment building in Paphos.
The fire was extinguished by the 36-year-old owner of the company. The vehicle was damaged at the front.
From the examinations carried out at the scene by members of the Police and the Fire Service, it was found that the fire in the vehicle had been set maliciously.
From the police examinations that followed, evidence emerged against a 41-year-old and a 20-year-old. Court arrest warrants were issued for them, pursuant to which the two were arrested yesterday, around 4.30 in the afternoon and around 8.45 in the evening, respectively.
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Filenews
Only the two suspects, a 58-year-old and a 30-year-old from Nicosia- are being brought before the Limassol District Court today for renewal of their detention. The third suspect, the 39-year-old of Greek origin, was released after eight days of detention, as, as everything shows, he is not involved in the murder of Stavros Demosthenous.
This is the owner of the double-cab vehicle recorded at the scenes of the murder. The 39-year-old, as Filenews wrote in a previous article, denied any involvement and claimed that he worked in the area. Regarding his movements there, he said that he had gone to use drugs.
The Police, however, had rushed to present him as a "key person" in the case, claiming that he was recorded in closed circuits in all three scenes, even in the previous days before the murder of the 49-year-old businessman. According to the material presented to the Court, his vehicle, a double cabin with a characteristic grille and exhaust, was allegedly near the crime scene at the critical time. Then, as the Police claim, he follows the van and the motorcycle to the scene of the arson, before disappearing from a different route.
The 39-year-old was not only not ultimately connected to the crime, but was released.
Update - They knew about the motorcycle and that it was used for the murder of Stavros Demosthenous. This emerged from today's proceedings before the Limassol District Court, where the two suspects were taken to renew their detention for another eight days.
At the request of the investigators of the TAE Limassol, the lawyers of the suspects did not raise an objection, and the Court approved the request, ordering the renewal of their detention. Questioned in writing, the 59-year-old denied any involvement in the case and gave various allegations about his movements before, during and after the commission of the murder, as well as in relation to other events related to the case under investigation.
These allegations are being investigated. Questioned in writing, the 30-year-old also denied any involvement in the case, however he admitted that he proceeded to buy the motorcycle used to commit the murder, from a person he indicated and is related to the case, while giving allegations about this act. Both suspects denied having any involvement on the day of the murder. During the investigation of the suspects' allegations and after more statements were taken, it became clear that the 30-year-old seems to have known that the motorcycle he bought was used for an illegal purpose. Some of his claims were confirmed. As for the 59-year-old, his claims about his movements on the day of the murder were not confirmed, however it seems that he also knew that the motorcycle would be used to murder Stavros Demosthenous.
The 44-year-old owner of the motorcycle and former footballer denied any involvement in the case, but implicated the 59-year-old and 30-year-old, giving details of how he handed over the motorcycle to the 30-year-old. As he said, 15 days before the murder, he had gone to the home of the 59-year-old, with whom he is friends. The 30-year-old also arrived at the house. The 44-year-old expressed the intention to sell the motorcycle, the 30-year-old was interested and they reached an agreement to buy it for €800. All this happened in the presence of the 59-year-old.
The day after the murder of Stavros Demosthenous, the 59-year-old contacted him and invited him to his house, as, as he told him, the 30-year-old wanted him in relation to the motorcycle he had sold him and was used in the crime. There, when the 30-year-old went, he told him that the motorcycle was in the Police, but without giving him an explanation, and gave him €100, telling him to say that his motorcycle had been stolen.
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A 35-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were arrested in connection with a robbery committed on September 29 against a 44-year-old woman while she was in an apartment in Nicosia, said the spokesman for the Press Office of the Police Headquarters.
As part of the investigation of the case, evidence emerged against a 35-year-old man, who was arrested shortly after 16:30 on Sunday, and on Monday, shortly after 17:00, a 35-year-old woman was also arrested, he said.
According to the complaint, he said, around 6.40 in the afternoon of September 29, information was received about a robbery in an apartment in Nicosia and members of the Police went to the place where they located the 44-year-old tenant of the apartment. Based on the complaint, a short time before, the door of the apartment rang and after opening it, an unknown man who was wearing sunglasses and a hat entered.
According to the 44-year-old's complaint, he was holding a knife and after beating and threatening her, he took a box containing a number of jewellery as well as a large amount of money in various banknotes and fled in a car that was waiting for him and in which two other people were riding.
The complaint concerns the amount of money he took during the robbery amounts to €22,000.
