Filenews 30 December 2025
The dynamic and targeted preventive operations of the Police continued during last night, with an enhanced presence in key points of urban areas, with the aim of preventing serious criminal acts, protecting citizens and ensuring public order.
As part of these operations, the Police proceeded to arrest a total of seven persons.
Specifically, three persons were arrested for illegal stay on the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, while two other persons were arrested on the basis of warrants pending against them.
Also, a driver who was driving with a deprived driver's license was arrested, after he was found positive in a preliminary alcohol test with a reading of 131μg instead of 9μg, while a second driver was arrested for speeding, i.e. 185 HAO instead of 100 which is the maximum limit on highways.
At the same time, as part of the investigation of traffic offenses, four cars and three motorcycles were detained.
During the same night, 41 inspections of premises were also carried out, with the aim of preventing and suppressing delinquent behaviour.
As far as the road network is concerned, more than 440 inspections were carried out, from which 120 traffic complaints emerged. Of these, 41 were for exceeding the speed limit.
These operations are part of a broad, continuous and strengthened preventive plan of the Police, with an increased police presence, targeted controls and immediate operational action in all provinces, with the aim of preventing crime and strengthening the sense of security of citizens.
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The Police arrested a 21-year-old man who dragged a pedestrian and a child with his scooter.
According to the authorities, the 21-year-old from Syria was arrested as the alleged scooter operator, who left the scene of a road collision with a 43-year-old woman who was moving on foot holding her toddler, aged one year and four months, on a bicycle / pedestrian path in Limassol, on December 08.
The collision happened around 3.20 in the afternoon of December 8, on a bicycle path next to 28th October Street, in Limassol, where while a 43-year-old woman, who was holding her one-year-old and four-month-old child in her arms, was crossing the bicycle path on foot, through a pedestrian crossing, under circumstances that are being investigated, was hit by a passing scooter operator, who was travelling on the bicycle path.
As a result, the mother and her toddler fell to the ground and the child was injured in the head. The child was taken to a polyclinic in Limassol and then to the Archbishop Makarios III Hospital, in Strovolos, Nicosia, where he was hospitalized and discharged three days later.
The operator of the scooter left the scene of the collision and investigations were being carried out by the Police to identify and locate him. After a member of the Limassol Traffic Police received relevant information as part of the investigations, the 21-year-old was located yesterday and interrogated, admitted his involvement in the road collision. An arrest warrant was issued against the 21-year-old, pursuant to which he was arrested shortly before 7.00 pm yesterday night and taken into custody for police examinations.
The Limassol Traffic Department continues the examinations.
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An alarm was sounded in the early hours of the morning by the authorities, after an explosive device was found in the Zakaki area.
According to information, at 04:25 in the morning, a 28-year-old man contacted the Limassol Police and reported that a citizen tried to burn the beer garden. Specifically, he said that opposite his premises (beer garden) in Zakaki, he spotted a suspicious person, standing next to a scooter-type motorcycle, who was in possession of a jerry can with flammable material and an object that looked like an explosive device.
The 28-year-old immobilized the suspect with other persons and asked for his immediate pick-up by the Police.
While the patrols were heading to the scene, the suspect managed to escape, before the arrival of the Police.
Patrols of the Limassol Police Department rushed to the scene where they surrounded the area, preserved the evidence and began investigations to locate the suspect.
After about 40 minutes, the suspect was found hiding in bushes near the area by the 28-year-old and other citizens, while at the same time the Police went to the scene, where they arrested him for identity verification. The suspect was indicated by bystanders as the person who had previously been identified.
As it was established, the suspect is a foreigner from Sri Lanka, aged 44 and was injured in various parts of his body. Immediately, on the instructions of the ADE, he was taken to the General Hospital of Limassol, to receive treatment.
At the place where the 44-year-old suspect was initially located, various items were found, including a jerry can with flammable material and an improvised cylindrical metal explosive object, filled with a quantity of explosive material, connected to an improvised means of detonation.
The Police Director, the Assistant Police Director of Limassol, Officers and members of the Limassol Police Department went to the scene. As it was established, the foreigner has been illegally on the territory of the Republic since 27/6/25.
The examinations continue by the TAE Limassol, while the 44-year-old is in custody.
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A serious incident of attack by members of the occupying army against Greek Cypriot farmers was recorded yesterday in the Dead Zone in the area of Mammari.
As the young farmer Gabriel Gerolemou complained speaking to Alpha Cyprus, more than 20 Turkish soldiers and pseudo-police officers tried to arrest him and his father, while they were cultivating their field, which is located about 300 meters from an outpost of the occupying army.
"They were throwing stones at us, trying to grab us by the neck and arrest us," he said.
According to him, the incident started when a Turkish soldier tried to approach the private double-cab vehicle parked next to the field and remove the keys from the starter. The two farmers tried to prevent him, resulting in the arrival of more soldiers and pseudo-policemen, who surrounded the area.
As Mr. Gerolemou described, a pseudo-policeman tried to get on the tractor driven by his father, in order to arrest him.
"It was a pseudo-policeman who tried to get on the tractor to arrest my father. When he accelerated to move away from the scene, he fell off the tractor. They shouted at us in Turkish and English 'stay', 'arrested' and such", as he said.
The young farmer said the incident took place within the Buffer Zone, adding that peacekeepers who arrived at the scene were limited to monitoring and recording the incident.
"The situation was very dangerous, they were carrying weapons and there were two of us and there were twenty of them. What else can you do but leave?", he added.
The incident was also described as particularly serious by the farmer from Denia, Christodoulos Christodoulou, pointing out that the Turkish soldiers and pseudo-policemen were armed.
According to him, "it was the worst incident we have seen in the last 5-6 years".
"We have families, babies and we can't have the Turks getting on the tractors every now and then, smashing them. It is unacceptable, we do not know what to do," said Mr. Christodoulou.
The incident caused serious damage to the tractor of the Greek Cypriot farmers, which has not yet been calculated.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already been informed about the incident.
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Cyprus Mail
Police have arrested a 40-year-old man in Nicosia who was wanted in connection with a series of serious offenses, authorities confirmed on Tuesday.
Earlier, the police had issued an appeal for information to help locate the individual, describing him as wanted in relation to a case involving significant criminal activity.
Following investigative efforts, officers were able to identify and apprehend him in accordance with a warrant.
The arrest is linked to an ongoing investigation into crimes believed to have been committed between November and December 2025 in the capital.
Details of the offenses have not been disclosed, but authorities have indicated that the investigation is continuing.
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Police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old in connection with the theft of a motorcycle in Larnaca in October 19.
The man was arrested pursuant to a court warrant, which had been issued as part of investigations into the theft.
