Pafos Live 26 February 2026
The police proceeded to arrest a 41-year-old woman in connection with a case of car theft. The vehicle was stolen on October 27, 2024 in Paphos and was also located in Paphos two days later. A 24-year-old man was arrested for the case on December 04, 2024, while now a testimony has emerged for his alleged accomplice.
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An alarm was sounded last night by the authorities, after an arson in a car in Limassol.
According to the Police report, around 9:00 last night, a fire broke out in a car, which was parked in an area in Limassol.
The owner of the vehicle is a 45-year-old woman, while the vehicle is used by her 21-year-old son.
The fire caused extensive damage to the vehicle, while damage was also caused to a second car, owned by a 53-year-old woman, which was parked at the scene.
The fire was extinguished by members of the Fire Service.
From examinations carried out by members of the Police at the scene, it became clear that the fire was maliciously set in the first vehicle. The tent remains under guard, for examinations this morning.
The Limassol Police Department is investigating the arson case.
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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, five persons were arrested for various offenses, such as, among others, burglary of a building and theft and possession of burglary tools.
As part of these operations, during the night, 318 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 432 persons on board were checked.
At the same time, 13 inspections of premises were carried out, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, from which three complaints emerged.
During traffic checks carried out, 132 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, of which four driver complaints for driving under the influence of alcohol stand out. A total of 77 alcohol tests were carried out. Also, as part of the police examinations, four vehicles were detained.
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.
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A large amount of duty-free tobacco products were found by members of the Police, specifically by members of the Poaching Unit, MMAD, in the possession of a 71-year-old man, who was stopped for a check while traveling by vehicle, in the area of Dali yesterday afternoon.
The members of MMAD spotted the 71-year-old driving the car on a road leading from the occupied areas to the free areas of the Republic, in Dali, around 4.20 yesterday afternoon. After stopping him for a check, they proceeded to search the vehicle, where they found in boxes and bags, 203 cigarette boxes of various brands, 30 boxes of heated cigarettes, also of various brands, 3 kilograms and 750 grams of tobacco for handmade cigarettes and 1,000 grams of hookah tobacco.
After it was found that they were duty-free tobacco products, the members of the Police proceeded to arrest the 71-year-old. He was transported in his vehicle to the local Police Station of Pera Chorio, where an officer of the Customs Department was called and went.
The 71-year-old was issued an out-of-court fine by the Customs Department, which he repaid and was then released. The tobacco products were detained by the Customs Department.
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The trial of a shocking case of sexual abuse of a minor child by her own father as the perpetrator at the Limassol Criminal Court is shocking. The case reached the court after the 6-year-old girl spoke to her mother and revealed the two serious incidents of sexual abuse she suffered.
Today (25/02), in a closed-door procedure, the Limassol Permanent Criminal Court convicted the 58-year-old father. In its judgment, the Court underlines the need for strict protection of children from all forms of sexual violence.
Specifically, the Criminal Court imposed concurrent sentences of five years in prison on the accused, who admitted charges related to child sexual abuse, in violation of the Prevention and Combating of Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation of Children and the Depiction of Child Sexual Abuse Material Law.
According to the facts, the first incident was committed in August 2024, when the minor was sitting with her accused father on the sofa of their house and he covered her and committed heinous acts against her. The second incident was committed in March 2025, when the accused was in the bathroom. The minor entered to use the toilet and then her father closed the door and abused her.
The minor, according to the decision of the Limassol Criminal Court, revealed the incidents to her mother, who in turn told her godmother. The latter immediately contacted the helpline "1440" of the Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Violence in the Family (SPAVO) and made a relevant complaint.
The accused, interrogated a few days later, admitted to committing the offenses.
In imposing the sentence, the Criminal Court emphasized that the Law contributes to the relentless effort of the global community to protect children from sexual exploitation and abuse. He also stressed that "a healthy human mind and logic cannot conceive of a father having and manifesting sexual urges and appetites towards his child. The relationships between parents and children with everything that surrounds them do not dictate ways of behaving. They are taken for granted and given. The care, love, affection, protection, guidance that a parent must provide to his child are not imposed by laws and rules, but function and stem from the instinct and innate need of the parent towards his womb. On these foundations the relations between them must be based and consolidated. Any behaviours that go beyond the above frameworks and are not surrounded by them, should be appropriately intercepted, let alone acts that are directed against the sexual function of a minor within the family environment. The defendant in this case, exploited and sexually abused his own 6-year-old daughter on two occasions."
As noted in the announcement of the Criminal Court, the position of the defendant's lawyer that there was no pre-planning or coercion was rejected. As the Criminal Court explained in its reasoned decision, in the first case the accused covered his body and the body of the minor using a blanket (it was August), apparently so that his actions would not be visible, and in the second case he closed the door, thus isolating the minor in the same place where he was already naked. The element of coercion arises from the fact that, among other things, in both cases he grabbed the hand of the minor and thus forced her to touch him in sensitive places. For the benefit of the accused, his admission, his clean criminal record, his cooperation with the Police, as well as his personal circumstances were taken into account, among other things.
The accused was sentenced to 5 years in prison on each charge. Also, a supervision decree was issued against the accused by the Supervisory Authority for a period of 6 years from the day of his release.
