Pafos Live 13 March 2026
The Police proceeded to arrest a 37-year-old man, as part of the investigation of the case of attack against a 36-year-old employee driver of a vehicle of the company which manages the mobile photo-marking cameras and the causing of malicious damage to the vehicle.
The 37-year-old was arrested shortly before 2.00 pm today, by members of the Limassol OPE, by virtue of a court warrant obtained on the basis of testimony that emerged during the investigation of the case. He was taken into custody for the purpose of police examinations.
According to the data under examination, around 2.40 this morning, the 36-year-old working driver was with a mobile photo-marking camera vehicle, on the Paphos-Limassol highway, in a parking lot next to the Kouklion exit, in the direction to Limassol, for a photo-tagging check.
Three people parked their car at the scene and one of them asked to talk to the 36-year-old. After the 36-year-old opened the driver's door window, the unknown man allegedly sprayed his face, while the other two people allegedly hit the company's car, causing damage to it.
The 36-year-old left the scene with his vehicle and went to the local Police Station where he made a relevant complaint.
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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, eleven persons were arrested for various offenses, such as, among others, driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal possession of property, as well as illegal stay.
As part of these operations, during the night, 502 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 689 persons on board were checked. At the same time, 35 inspections of premises were carried out, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, from which four complaints emerged.
During traffic checks carried out, 321 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, of which three driver complaints for driving under the influence of alcohol stand out. A total of 71 alcohol tests were carried out. Also, as part of the police examinations, ten vehicles were detained.
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A 76-year-old victim of online fraud for the second time, who complained that he lost €48.000, while during last year he had lost the amount of €56.000.
In a relevant announcement by the Police, it is stated that on 12/03/2026 a 76-year-old resident of Limassol reported to the DDOE of the TAE Limassol, that during the period between 13/02/2026 and 03/03/2026 he was the victim of online fraud, as a result of which the amount of €48.260 was detached from his bank account.
Specifically, the complainant stated that he had also been the victim of a similar online fraud in May 2025, during which a sum of money amounting to approximately €56,000 was extorted from him.
At the beginning of February 2026, hitherto unknown persons contacted the complainant by phone, claiming that they were lawyers and that they had located the money he had lost during the previous fraud, assuring him that they could arrange for its return.
In this context, the perpetrators persuaded the complainant to grant them access to his bank account through the remote access application "AnyDesk", on the pretext that they would proceed with the process of returning his money. Then, instead of making the promised transfer, they began to ask the complainant for the payment of sums of money, under the pretext of various expenses, such as payment of taxes and other charges.
The complainant, considering the explanations given to him reasonable, proceeded to authorize payments that they themselves entered in his bank account.
As it was subsequently ascertained, a total of five (5) outgoing bank transfers were made from the complainant's account to banking institutions abroad, which amount to a total of the aforementioned amount.
When the perpetrators continued to ask for additional amounts of money, the complainant realized that it was a fraud and filed a complaint with the Police.
The case is being investigated by the DDOE of the TAE Limassol.
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The Police arrested a 17-year-old person yesterday, as part of the investigation of a robbery case.
According to a complaint made to the Police, on 11/03/2026, around 8 p.m., while a 20-year-old man was sitting on a bench in Ayia Napa, two unknown persons approached him and under the threat of a knife, they snatched his wallet.
During the investigation of the case, testimony emerged against a 17-year-old, who was arrested yesterday on a court warrant and taken into custody, while today he is expected to appear before a Court.
The TAE of Famagusta continues the exams.
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A five-year prison sentence was imposed yesterday on a 33-year-old man by the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca, following a trial of an arson case, committed last July, in Larnaca. The case had been investigated by the Larnaca Police Department.
According to the evidence collected during the investigation of the case by the Police and presented before the Permanent Criminal Court by the Prosecuting Authority, the arson was committed around 6.45 in the morning, on July 12, 2025, when a property owned by a 58-year-old woman, which is adjacent to her residence and is used as a garage, was maliciously set on fire. The 58-year-old realized and immediately extinguished the fire, which caused damage to the garage.
During the investigation of the case by the Police, testimony emerged against the 33-year-old and a court warrant was issued for his arrest. The 33-year-old was located and arrested on July 14, by members of the TAE and the OPE Larnaca, (Police Press Release No. 1, dated 15/07/2025, relevant). Interrogated by members of the Police, the 33-year-old confessed to committing the arson.
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The Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of a convicted rape and upheld the nine-year prison sentence imposed on him by the Limassol Permanent Criminal Court, ruling that the sentence was not excessive and that there was no reason for the appellate court to intervene.
In his appeal, the convicted person argued that the sentence of nine years in prison imposed on him was manifestly excessive and that the court of first instance did not take sufficient account of mitigating factors, instead placing too much emphasis on aggravating evidence.
According to the events recorded by the Criminal Court, the incident occurred on May 13, 2022. The complainant had gone out with her friends and colleagues to a property in Erimi, where she consumed alcohol and then went to a nightclub in Limassol where she continued to drink.
The court found that, due to the large amount of alcohol she consumed, the woman was in a state of intense intoxication, could not walk steadily or communicate with those around her. Shortly before 2 in the morning, she left the nightclub with the accused, asking him to take her home. However, he drove her to his own apartment.
In the apartment, the complainant lost consciousness and found herself on the accused's bed. He removed her clothes and then proceeded to have intercourse with her. The woman did not remember how she left the nightclub or how she ended up in the apartment. All she remembered was waking up during the act, with the accused on top of her.
The Court of Appeal noted that, although no physical violence was used, the complainant was in a situation that did not allow her to understand what was happening or to give consent. He also stressed that the accused was able to understand the situation in which the woman was and nevertheless proceeded to act, taking advantage of her inability to decide.
The next morning the woman woke up naked in an unknown apartment and repeatedly asked the accused to take her back. When she was finally taken to work, a colleague who picked her up testified that she was terrified and in a state of shock. She was then examined by a doctor, while according to the court the events had a significant impact on her psychological state.
The Court of Appeal underlined that sexual offences are particularly serious crimes that offend the personality of the victim and for which case law imposes severe and dissuasive penalties. He also stressed that the increased frequency of such offenses makes it necessary to strictly deal with the perpetrators.
At the same time, it found that the Criminal Court had taken into account the mitigating factors of the accused, such as his clean criminal record, his age — about 27 years old at the time of the commission of the crime — as well as his personal and family circumstances.
The Court of Appeal held that there was no error of principle in the approach of the court of first instance nor that the sentence fell outside the limits of the case-law. Consequently, the grounds of appeal were rejected as unfounded and the appeal was dismissed, with the first instance decision being upheld.
