Pafos Live 3 December 2025
As part of the investigation of a car fire case, the Police arrested a person today.
He is a 44-year-old man, who was arrested under a court warrant and taken into custody for the purpose of investigating the case.
The fire broke out this morning, (around 05:40), in a car parked in a village in the province of Paphos.
The Crime Detection Department (TAE) of Paphos continues the examinations.
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The Police made a new arrest as part of the investigation of the incidents that took place late last Thursday night at the APOLLON Club in Limassol, the Police made another arrest this afternoon.
He is a 24-year-old, who was arrested under a court warrant and taken into custody for the purpose of investigating the case.
The exams continue with the TAE of Limassol.
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The Police in Limassol are on alert, after the information that a 65-year-old woman has barricaded herself in her house, in the area of Agios Ioannis, threatening to blow it up with LPG.
As Filenews is informed, the woman is in intense despair and asks for the reversal of the decision that provides for her eviction. This morning, she informed her son that he had locked himself in the house, claiming that there were gas cylinders inside and that she intended to blow them up.
Strong Police Forces have rushed to the scene , which blocked the road in front of the house, trying to prevent the worst and keep the neighbours at a distance.
Earlier in the morning, bailiffs were to enforce a court order evicting the occupants of the residence. However, the tenant locked herself in the house and, according to her son, expressed an intention to harm herself.
A woman, a resident of Paphos, reported to the Police that in September 2025 an online advertisement followed, through which a person appeared to allegedly promote a state investment platform.
After creating an account through the advertising link, unknown persons contacted her and informed her that they would supposedly guide her in every investment.
The 71-year-old, after being convinced that her investment had yielded a profit, on two different occasions transferred a total amount of money of about €6,500 to a bank account that was indicated to her.
Subsequently, when she tried to withdraw her money, she found that she had been the victim of fraud.
The Paphos TAE continues the examinations.
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The Court of Appeal overturned a first-instance decision of the Limassol District Court in a case of a traffic accident that occurred in 2009 in Limassol, referring the case for retrial. The accident was caused when a vehicle driven by the appellant collided with the respondent on foot, who was attempting to cross the road. In the first instance, the Court had awarded the respondent an amount of €200,000 as general damages, plus interest and €19,375.31 as special compensations, placing the driver solely responsible for the accident and charging him with the costs of the procedure.
In his appeal, the driver challenged the first-instance decision on twelve grounds, the first five of which concerned liability and the rest compensation. The Court of Appeal chose to give priority to the grounds related to liability, given that the appellant argued that not only was he not solely liable, but on the contrary, the pedestrian was solely responsible for the accident.
The driver claimed that the Court of First Instance made erroneous and unjustified conclusions as to the behaviour of the pedestrian before the collision, in particular that he had checked the road and started crossing at a fast pace only when it found that there was no vehicle. He also disputed the conclusion that there were no parked vehicles that might obstruct visibility, and considered it incorrect to assess his own testimony as unreliable.
The Supreme Court, examining the entirety of the testimony and the reasoning of the Court of First Instance, pointed out that its judgment was not sufficiently documented and was based on conclusions that did not emerge with certainty from the data. It is noted that the Court of First Instance had accepted that the visibility at the scene of the collision reached 200 meters, which raises doubts whether it was possible for the pedestrian not to notice the passing vehicle, as well as whether she actually took all the appropriate safety measures before entering the road. The High Court emphasized that, under the circumstances, there is a reasonable doubt as to whether the pedestrian carried out a substantive traffic check before crossing the road.
At the same time, the High Court found that the evaluation of the driver's testimony by the Court of First Instance was incomplete and in some places was based on issues of secondary importance, which did not affect the merits of the case, such as small variations in the description of the pedestrian's gait or the number of parked vehicles.
The High Court concluded that the first instance decision was based on an incomplete assessment of the testimony and that the conclusions about the driver's sole responsibility were not based on a complete and reasonable analysis of the facts. As mentioned, the court of first instance made assumptions that amounted more to conjecture than to legal conclusions based on proven facts, contrary to settled case law that requires clear and documented proof of the defendant's negligence.
In the light of these findings, the Supreme Court ruled that it could not form its own judgment on the merits, because this would require a full evaluation of the testimony, a task that belongs exclusively to the Court of First Instance. Therefore, it decided to set aside the first instance decision in its entirety and refer the case for a full retrial.
The appeal was accepted, the decision of the Limassol District Court was annulled, including the provision for costs, which will remain in the course of the lawsuit. In addition, the appellant was ordered to pay the costs of the appeal, amounting to €4,200 plus VAT, if any.
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The Police in Larnaca were alerted when a resident found a pistol in a travel suitcase belonging to a deceased relative. The man immediately informed the Police and handed over the weapon to the authorities.
During the check that followed by the man, two grenades, a quantity of explosive material, a detonator, as well as 84 bullets were found in the same suitcase.
The scene was cordoned off for examinations, while the Larnaca Police Department is investigating the case to determine the origin and purpose of possession of the weapons.
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A new case of the well-known electronic fraud through invoices is being investigated by the Police, which repeats its appeals to the public to always be careful in their transactions.
The case was reported to the Police, by a director of a company in Limassol, according to Sánchez, his company received a message via e-mail, from a supplier company with which they have been working in recent years, which seems to have been fraudulent, in the request that the payment of the invoices of the supplier company be made in a different bank account than the usual one.
The complainant was persuaded and proceeded to repay an invoice to the supplier company, amounting to $9,745, through the new bank account. However, he realized that he was a victim of fraud, when in communication with the supplier company, he was informed that the invoice had not been paid.
The Financial Crime Investigation Office of the TAE Limassol is investigating the case.
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A postponement to next Monday, December 8, at 9 am, was given by the Court for the procedure of the second "trial within trial" in the case of the German citizen, who is accused of a case of usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties in the occupied territories.
The postponement was requested by the defense lawyer, Sotiris Argyrou, asking for more time to prepare his speech.
The Prosecution did not object to the request and so the court accepted it.
The speeches will take place next Monday, at 9 am.
