NIGHT OF VANDALISM IN PAPHOS - POLICE SEE RETALIATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE - Filenews 22/8
In various areas of the Paphos district and not only in Tala, incidents of vandalism of properties were finally recorded on the night of Friday to Saturday. As revealed after the morning opening of many commercial spaces, damage during the night was also caused in Kato Paphos, Chloraka, Pegeia and other parts of the Paphos suburban area.
Similar vandalism and damage were reported in the morning by the owners of kiosks, an oil station, a fruit shop and other places. We remind you that the beginning was made with the case of Tala, where the hitherto unknown perpetrators caused damage to a pharmacy and a cafeteria, while they also stole various items from the pharmacy.
This fact, and especially the extent it is revealed to have taken on that particular night, caused an alarm to the Paphos Police Department. Officials pointed out to "F" that it is now obvious that there was organized planning for these acts, which, as they estimate, are not accidental, nor unrelated to the campaign of law enforcement and identification of offenders that followed the serious incidents against food distributors on Tuesday night in the area of Mouttalos.
In the days that followed those incidents, these sources said, the Paphos Police intensified patrols and checks in areas of the city in order to deal with phenomena of delinquency and to identify other people wanted for the specific incidents against the distributors.
The Police estimate that the barrage of vandalism that took place on Friday night was a reaction of groups of young people to these suffocating checks and staff of the force emphasize that this event will not only not suspend the effort to combat illegalities, but will mean its further intensification.
In the meantime, teams of the Paphos Directorate continue at an intensive pace with the first light of day the investigations in all parts of Paphos where vandalism was recorded to lead to the identity of the perpetrators. In the hands of the authorities there is already enough visual material from closed recording circuits in almost all cases, according to our information, which is being examined.
