Pafos Live 23 May 2026
Specifically, while a 56-year-old man was leaving the parking lot of a hotel in Paphos in his car, he noticed the 75-year-old moving on foot and gave her priority to continue her course.
According to the evidence under investigation, the woman allegedly lost her balance and fell on the asphalt. At the same time, the 56-year-old driver of the car, not realizing the fact, started his vehicle to exit the parking lot, as a result of which the wheel of his car hit the woman in the back, while she was still lying on the ground.
An ambulance was called to the scene and transported the 75-year-old to Paphos General Hospital where she was admitted to the operating room. The woman succumbed to her injuries during the surgery.
The driver of the car was arrested pursuant to a court warrant and taken into custody to facilitate investigations.
An alarm was sounded by the Police after a rain of complaints from vehicle owners in Limassol, who found their parked vehicles in the morning with damage and destruction.
As Filenews informs, these are more than 20 cars that were parked in an underground parking lot of Limassol towers as well as in the surrounding area.
The suspect allegedly smashed windows, damaged side mirrors, and damaged windshield wipers.
The man who furiously caused the destruction is recorded on video by closed surveillance circuits, with the Police evaluating information and conducting investigations to locate him.
The incident, as we were told, took place on Thursday, while the complaints of the owners began on Friday.
The investigations continue.
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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, four persons were arrested, for various offenses including assault on a police officer, disturbance, carrying knives and traffic violations.
During the night, 532 vehicles were stopped for inspection and 717 drivers and passengers were checked. At the same time, 52 inspections of premises were carried out, from which 13 complaints emerged.
During traffic checks carried out, 280 complaints were made about various traffic violations, of which 93 concern driving at excessive speed. A total of 99 alcohol tests were carried out during which four drivers were found positive. Six preliminary drug tests were also carried out during which one driver tested positive. Also, as part of the police examinations, 3 vehicles were detained.
Policing operations, for the prevention and suppression of crime, continue every day, with an enhanced police presence, targeted controls and immediate operational action, in order to protect citizens and ensure public order.
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Two young men aged 25 and 26, who were arrested on Thursday night after surveillance, are "bass" in the hands of YKAN Limassol. During the operation of YKAN, a quantity of cannabis weighing about 2 kilograms and 805 grams was located and confiscated. The two young men were brought before the Limassol Court today (22/5), which ordered their detention for a period of seven days.
The two childhood friends allegedly participated in an organized drug supply and trafficking ring, making deliveries of quantities to various areas of the Kouris dam and to pedestrian streets.
According to information, YKAN received information that the two young men were working together in the storage, trafficking and supply of cocaine and cannabis, which they procured in large quantities every week. They then stored them in their homes and channelled them to other persons, delivering them to predetermined places mainly in the afternoon and evening.
Arrest warrants had been issued against the two young men and they were being sought. On Thursday afternoon, members of YKAN spotted the 25-year-old moving in different areas of Ypsonas and then going from Kolossi to the Kouris dam, an area where, according to information, there was a specific drug deposit point.
On his way, the 25-year-old made suspicious movements. At some point he parked near the Kouris dam, got out of his vehicle, approaching a bush on foot after crossing the railing of the road. He then returned to the vehicle without holding anything in his hands. Members of YKAN approached the spot and located under a bush a nylon bag, in which there was a quantity of cannabis weighing 1 kilogram and 100 grams.
The 25-year-old was spotted again by YKAN heading to the area of Ypsonas a little later. Again he parked for a few minutes in a certain spot with bushes and then left. After an investigation, 12 nylon packages containing cannabis with a total weight of 1.030 grams were found at the scene.
Subsequently, the young man was stopped by the members of YKAN and in his possession, after a search of the vehicle, two nylon packages with cannabis were found. He was then taken to places he indicated, where part of the drugs had been placed, but denied his involvement.
At the same time, searches were carried out in various places to detect drugs, where two additional packages of cannabis were found on a pedestrian street in the area of Ypsonas.
The police then searched the 26-year-old's home, where a backpack containing nylon transparent packages with cannabis was found under a bush in the garden. Three more packages of drugs were also found in a warehouse in the garden. Under interrogation, the 26-year-old admitted to possession of the drugs found in his home, as well as the quantities found in Ypsonas.
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From 9 to 12 years, the Court of Appeal increased the sentence of a young person convicted in 2023 of possession for the purpose of supplying 13 kilograms of drugs.
The Court of Appeal accepted the appeal of the Attorney General for inadequacy of the sentence and ruled that the large amount of drugs, i.e. 12 kg and 900 g, justified its increase by three years. The convicted had admitted to the Limassol Criminal Court that on 20.9.2023 he was in possession of 13 kilograms of cannabis plant from which the resin had not been extracted, with the intention of supplying it to other persons.
According to the facts, he was stopped while driving his vehicle after information from the police and both he and his vehicle were searched and a brown travel suitcase was found in the trunk of the vehicle which, when shown to him, replied "it is not mine". They opened the suitcase and found that there were four separate nylon packages inside which contained a quantity of green dry plant matter that looked like cannabis.
In his investigative testimony, the accused, in the presence of his lawyer, stated, among other things, that he met a person, to whom he stated that he had financial problems and agreed with him to pick up the specific suitcase from a specific place and take it to Limassol for a payment of €1.000. He also stated that he knew that the act he carried out was illegal but he needed the money and refused to name the person with whom he agreed to transport the drugs, expressing fear for his life.
The Court of Appeal agreed with the Court of First Instance that rejected the reason why the accused resorted to committing the serious offenses in question and in particular his financial inability, stressing that "in no way can he justify the serious illegal behaviour he indicated. The respondent should have sought legal sources of income and not succumbed to temptation and resorted to obtaining quick financial benefit with this illegal action", point out the three judges of the Court of Appeal.
Furthermore, the Court stressed that the need to impose a strict and dissuasive penalty under the facts and data of the present case is clearly not reflected in the amount of the sentence imposed on the respondent. This, objectively judged, in the light of the relevant case law, is undoubtedly insufficient and therefore the intervention of the Court of Appeal is justified. The appeal for inadequacy of the sentence succeeds. We take into account the large amount of cannabis and the 9-year prison sentence imposed on the charge of possession of 12 kilograms and 900 grams of cannabis for the purpose of supplying to other persons, is increased to 12 years.
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"The right to a fair trial was not violated," the Court of Appeal ruled, rejecting the appeal of a man convicted of threatening messages to his brother and upholding the four-month suspended prison sentence imposed on him by the Nicosia District Court.
The case concerned a conviction by the Nicosia District Court for offences in violation of the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law, as well as for offences of threatening in violation of Article 91A of the Penal Code.
According to the decision of the Court of Appeal, the conduct attributed to the appellant consisted of verbal threats sent via text messages on various occasions.
The appellant argued before the Court of Appeal that his right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence were violated, because the original indictment included only offenses under the legislation on electronic communications, which carried a fine, and then charges under the Criminal Code were added that provided for a prison sentence.
The Court of Appeal rejected the claim, noting that the amendment of the indictment was made at an early stage of the proceedings, in the presence of the defendant's lawyer and about four years before the start of the hearing.
The decision records that the indictment was registered in 2018 and the amendment was approved by the Court on November 19 of the same year, when the disputed charges were added. The hearing of the case finally began in 2023, after a series of postponements, most of which, according to the Court of Appeal, were due to the appellant himself.
The Court also pointed out that the defendant had changed lawyers twice and in the end chose to handle the case in person, cross-examining witnesses and calling defense witnesses.
The judges ruled that there was no influence on the defense due to the amendment of the indictment and that the first-instance decision was initiated within the limits recognized by case law.
With regard to the sentence, the appellant essentially argued that, since there were charges for the same acts under legislation providing for lighter penalties, he should be sentenced only on the basis of those offenses.
The Court of Appeal rejected this claim as well, ruling that it was not based on case law and that there was no reason to intervene in the judgment at first instance as to the amount of the sentence.
As a result, the appeal was dismissed in its entirety and the conviction as well as the four-month suspended prison sentence were upheld.
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Despite the court order prohibiting him from approaching his estranged wife and their child at a distance of less than 100 meters, a man was found just 15 meters from their residence, with the Court of Appeal ruling that the violation was neither accidental nor unintentional, but the result of a conscious choice, upholding his conviction for disobedience.
The appellant had been convicted at first instance by the Limassol District Court for violating Article 137 of the Penal Code, because he approached his estranged wife and their son at a distance of less than 100 meters, in violation of a court order prohibiting him from doing so.
According to the findings of the Court of First Instance, on March 4, 2023, the accused passed through a neighbouring plot to remove wood from the external fencing of the house where the complainant and their son lived. The Court had found that the distance from where the accused was to the living room of the house was about 15 meters, while when the complainant went out and saw him, the distance was about 30 meters.
During the hearing of the appeal, the appellant's lawyer argued that there was no testimony that his client knew that the complainant was inside the house at that time, while he stressed that due to the height of the wall and the fencing there was no possibility of visual contact with the interior of the house.
The Court of Appeal, however, held that the intent to violate the decree could be inferred from all the circumstances and conduct of the appellant. As stated in the decision, the accused had decided days earlier to go to the specific point and had informed the owner of the neighbouring plot of land. At the same time, he had not taken any measures to ensure that the complainant and his son would be absent from the house.
The Court noted that intent is usually established through factual testimony and not directly, referring to previous case law. The decision states that the appellant, while fully aware of the terms of the decree, consciously approached the residence at a distance of much less than 100 meters, without being able to know if the complainants were inside the house. In these circumstances, the Court of Appeal held that the only reasonable conclusion was its intention to violate the decree.
In conclusion, the Court of Appeal ruled that the appeal was unfounded in its entirety and upheld the first instance decision.
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After the "arrest" of the man with the initials Y.M.G at the illegal airport of Tymbou for attempting to transfer 4 embryos without permission, two more people were arrested for the case with the initials F.Y.G and N.B.T, who yesterday were placed under one-day "detention" and today were released on bail.
As reported in the occupied territories, Y.M.G was arrested on May 19 while transporting 4 human embryos marked "Life Parcel" to 4 different cryotanks, without having the necessary permission. According to the investigation of the "police", a woman with the initials F.Y.G, who gave instructions, and a man with the initials N.B.T., who gave permission to transfer the embryos from the insemination clinic to occupied Nicosia, were arrested on May 20.
The "district court" of Nicosia did not renew the detention order of the two, but released them on bail. But for the suspect with the initials Y.M.G, he ordered his detention in the central prison pending his trial in the "supreme criminal court", on the grounds that he did not have a "legal status" in the pseudo-state. He is accused of violating the "law on the transplantation of human cells, tissues and organs", along with F.Y.G and N.B.T, who were found to have given instructions and permission for the extraction of the embryos.
The Buggyun Kipris website writes that the IVF center in Nicosia from which the embryos were taken is called Vita Altera IVF. There are, it is noted, no publicly available sources for the founder of the center, while the "doctor in charge" of the center is said to be Dr. Ali Enver Kurt, who is not a Turkish Cypriot because he is allegedly a "temporary member" of the Turkish Cypriot medical association, which applies to foreigners, based on the research of Bugyun Kipris.
The center, located in an area of occupied Nicosia, provides in vitro fertilization, microfertilization (ICSI), egg and embryo sperm donation, embryo freezing, and genetic testing.
According to the same publication, the first suspect, Y.M.G., who was arrested at the illegal airport of Tymbou with the 4 embryos was found to be an Israeli citizen. It is also mentioned as a notable fact that LifeParcel, whose name was written on the embryo transfer cryotanks, is an international IVF courier company founded by Israeli embryologist Aharon Peretz.
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The Police authorities arrested two persons, earlier today in a house in the area of Governor's Beach.
According to information from Filenews, the Police are investigating a serious terrorism case. These are two Palestinians, in whose home a mixture of explosive material intended for the manufacture of explosive devices was found.
The two arrested were brought before a Court, which ordered their eight-day detention.
The announcement of the Police:
Members of the Police, after collecting and evaluating information, proceeded to arrest two persons aged 32 and 38, third-country nationals, pursuant to court warrants.
Subsequently, searches were carried out on the basis of court warrants, in two houses used by the 32-year-old, in the province of Larnaca, in which various items were located and confiscated, including objects that can be used to manufacture explosives, the possession of which is prohibited.
The two suspects were brought before the Larnaca District Court today, where an eight-day detention order was issued against them. TAE Larnaca continues the exams.
Update - Offenses of terrorism and participation in a criminal organization are being investigated against the two persons, aged 32 and 38, third-country nationals, who were arrested on the basis of court warrants, said Police spokesman Byron Byron.
He added that this case is being investigated in cooperation with other competent state bodies as well as international bodies within the framework of the international obligations of the Republic of Cyprus.
Investigations are ongoing and so far various items found in the possession of the suspects have been confiscated, including items that can be used to make explosives.
As the Police spokesman said, the investigations are focused on the province of Larnaca at this stage.
Answering a question, Mr. Byron said that the Police are vigilant, evaluating any information, analyzing the information and taking action.
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Cyprus Police
The Limassol District Court issued an eight-day detention order today against a 50-year-old man, who was arrested for facilitating interrogations, regarding an under-investigated case of theft by a director and money laundering.
The 50-year-old was located and arrested in a foreign country, pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant, while yesterday he was transferred to Cyprus, where he was arrested with a court arrest warrant.
According to the information under investigation, the suspect is allegedly involved in a case of theft of approximately €800,000 from a company in Limassol, between the years 2016 - 2019.
The Limassol IAEC continues the examinations.
