Pafos Live 25 February 2026
The Police arrested seven people last night, for offenses concerning, among other things, illegal possession of a firearm, illegal stay on the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and impersonation, in the context of preventive policing operations.
In addition, during traffic checks carried out, 125 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, while 5 investigated cases of traffic violations also emerged.
Of the complaints made, 49 concerned drivers' complaints about exceeding the speed limit, while, as part of the police examinations, 4 vehicles were detained.
According to a Police announcement, the presence and action of the Police last night was intense, throughout Cyprus, with organized patrols in key points of urban areas, with the aim of preventing serious criminal acts, ensuring public order and increasing the sense of security of the public.
As a result of the preventive policing operations, seven persons were arrested for offenses such as illegal possession of a firearm, illegal stay on the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, impersonation, etc., according to the announcement.
As part of these operations, during the night, 294 drivers and passengers were stopped and checked, and 18 inspections of premises were carried out at the same time, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, and 3 complaints emerged.
Coordinated policing operations, for the prevention and suppression of crime, continue daily, with an increased/enhanced police presence, targeted controls and immediate operational action, with the aim of increasing the sense of security of citizens/protecting citizens and ensuring public order, the announcement states.
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Police arrested a 26-year-old man on a court warrant for a case of illegal possession of a firearm, negligent and reckless acts and injury, after a gun was fired that injured a 25-year-old woman, according to Police.
Specifically, around 6.20 on Tuesday afternoon, information was received about a shooting in an auxiliary house in Limassol, in which a 26-year-old Greek Cypriot and his 25-year-old partner, also a Greek Cypriot, live.
According to the data under examination, these persons, while they were engaged in the maintenance of the 25-year-old's shotgun, under circumstances that are being investigated, it fired, as a result of which it injured the 25-year-old in the leg. She was transported by ambulance to a private hospital in Limassol and then to a private hospital in Nicosia, where she was kept for treatment.
The 26-year-old was arrested on the basis of a court warrant and taken into custody.
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Filenews
The Limassol Police Department arrested a 25-year-old man from Limassol as part of an investigation into a case of arson of a vehicle, owned by a 28-year-old Greek Cypriot.
According to information, investigators secured testimony that allegedly implicated the 25-year-old in the case. As Filenews is informed, the suspect considered the 28-year-old to be responsible for his breakup with his girlfriend, who is a close friend of the complainant.
The 25-year-old is expected to be brought before the Limassol District Court, where a detention order will be requested. It is recalled that around 2:40 in the morning, a fire broke out in a car, which was parked in the parking lot of an apartment building in Limassol.
The fire was extinguished by the Fire Service, however the vehicle was completely destroyed.
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Serious dimensions that now reach the limits of criminal actions are taken by the actions of young people inside school buses that are in motion. A few days after the unacceptable and dangerous incident of throwing a bottle at the driver, while the school bus was heading from Polis Chrysochous to the Paphos Technical School, today it was reported that on another student route young people threw a firecracker at the driver, while again the bus was moving.
The incident, which is even more serious than the previous one due to the danger of the object possessed by the specific students, happened according to the complaint of the Paphos Transport Organization to the Police, on a school route from the schools of the community of Emba.
The throwing of the firecracker was reported during the departure of the students from the school and while the bus full of students was near the school, after the children were picked up. The driver complained that a firecracker was thrown at him and then immediately stopped the vehicle, informing the Paphos Transport Organization and the company's officials the Police.
Members of the Paphos Police Department went to the scene and started examinations, while according to our information, there is a strong disturbance among the bus drivers and the intention to take drastic measures to react to the attacks against them.
After last week's incident, this route had been stopped for a few days and finally a decision was made by OSYPA and the parents to resume from today. With the appearance of an even more dangerous incident today on another route, professionals are reportedly calling for more drastic measures to continue serving students.
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The Police in Limassol were alerted on Tuesday afternoon (24/2) after information about the discovery of a pistol at the premises of the OEDA Pentakolo. According to reliable sources of filenews, the weapon was spotted by an employee during a manual sorting of waste at the factory.
It is a black pistol with a brown handle. The pistol was received as evidence by members of the Police, who went to the scene for examinations. According to the same information, the weapon is expected to be sent for further scientific examinations, in order to determine whether it is real or dummy.
Police investigations are ongoing.
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The Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca imposed a sentence of 20 years in prison today, 25.02.2026, on a Moldovan citizen aged 31 in two counts of possession for the purpose of supplying 15 kilograms of cocaine (first category) and 94,960 kilograms of cannabis (second category).
It was emphasized that in recent years in our country there has been trafficking of large quantities of narcotic substances, with the result that the number of victims is increasing uncontrollably.
"The spread of drugs is a social scourge and a mine in the foundation of society, since they pose a danger to both the physical and social well-being of our fellow citizens and especially the youth of our country," the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca said in a statement, adding the following: "the social and economic burden associated with the supply and use of drugs was and remains enormous. Despite the substantial efforts made to prevent and suppress this global phenomenon, the problem seems to have intensified and taken on alarming proportions."
Consequently, the Permanent Criminal Court stressed in its multi-page decision that the contribution of the Courts in dealing with and combating this scourge is decisive and stressed the need for the imposition of dissuasive penalties, in particular, as it states, "when the previous, admittedly, severe penalties that have been imposed, do not seem to have brought about the desired result and in particular the deterrence of would-be offenders".
The Court took into account all the mitigating factors put forward in favour of the accused, namely his young age, his clean criminal record, his admission, his poor financial situation, the fact that he is a chronic user of addictive substances and addicted to gambling, his role in the drug trafficking chain as a transporter and the circumstances that led him to commit the offenses.
The Permanent Criminal Court, as stated, "after taking into account and taking into account all the data before it, with reference to the way in which all the mitigating factors that are applied are viewed, among other things, emphasizing the serious consequences that the possession and trafficking of drugs entails for society, let alone in this case of such quantities, nature and quality which imposes the imposition of penalties that reflect the need for deterrence and the protection of social values, ultimately imposed a 20-year prison sentence."
