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Members of the Paphos Traffic Police continue the campaign they started recently in the Polis Chrysochous apartment where the phenomenon of the use of wheeled vehicles by minors is intense.
In yesterday's new operation of the members of the Paphos traffic police, three other underage students of the high school and TESEK Polis Chrysochous were found driving cars without holding a driver's license and of course without being covered by safety certificates.
It is recalled that a similar campaign was carried out last week with the same results. In addition to the drivers, the owners of the vehicles that allowed the minors to drive them have also been reported.
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A road collision occurred fifty minutes after midnight today, on Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue in Limassol, resulting in the injury of a 27-year-old woman and the arrest of a 23-year-old.
Specifically, a car driven by the 23-year-old, arriving at the intersection with Marinou Geroulanou and Georgiou Averoff streets, under circumstances that are being investigated, collided with a car driven by the 27-year-old, with a 62-year-old and a 14-year-old as passengers.
As a result of the collision, the 27-year-old was injured and taken to hospital, where she was found to have suffered a fractured arm and was kept for treatment. The 62-year-old and the 14-year-old, who had minor injuries, received first aid and were discharged.
The 23-year-old underwent an alcohol test, with a final reading of 75μg instead of the allowed limit of 22μg, as a result of which he was arrested.
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As part of an information assessment, members of the Police conducted searches last night in the house, premises and vehicle of a 53-year-old man in Larnaca.
During the searches, 215 boxes of heated cigarettes, 101 boxes of cigarettes and 68 boxes of tobacco (45 and 50 grams) were located and confiscated, which were found to be duty-free products, since they did not bear the necessary markings.
The 53-year-old who was arrested was fined €19.000 by officials of the Customs Department, which after paying, he was released.
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Five people were arrested by the Police as part of its targeted preventive operations.
As a result of these operations, five persons were arrested for various offenses, including illegal possession of property, illegal possession and use of drugs, duty-free tobacco products, assault causing actual bodily harm.
As part of these operations, during the night, 282 drivers and 68 passengers were stopped and checked. At the same time, 43 inspections of premises were carried out, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, where a complaint was made.
During traffic checks carried out, 260 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, while 10 investigated cases of traffic violations also emerged.
Of the complaints made, 82 concerned exceeding the speed limit, while as part of the police examinations, 10 vehicles were detained.
122 alcohol tests were carried out, which resulted in three complaints. In three preliminary drug tests, three positive results were recorded.
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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The 30-year-old from Paphos, who was wanted since dawn regarding the shooting at 2.00am in the center of Paphos, appeared yesterday afternoon at the Paphos Police Department accompanied by his lawyer and was arrested.
The 30-year-old was wanted based on visual material and testimonies obtained by the Police regarding a case of illegal possession of a firearm and illegal possession of explosives. The 30-year-old is suspected of firing a shot in the early hours of the morning in Paphos' central Kennedy Square.
Around 2 in the morning, specifically, information was received about a shot being fired in the center of the city of Paphos and members of the Police went to the spot where, during the examinations, they found a pistol in a flower, while a shell casing was found a short distance away.
The area was cordoned off and with the first light of day, further examinations began. From the first testimonies and the examination of visual material, the Police identified the 30-year-old Greek Cypriot resident of Paphos as a suspect and an arrest warrant was issued against him.
The motives for his action are being investigated and it is expected that they will be clarified after his interrogation at the offices of the Paphos Police Department.
Update - An eight-day detention order was issued today by the Paphos District Court against the 30-year-old from Paphos who was arrested on suspicion of firing a shot at 2.00 am yesterday in the center of Paphos.
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The Police made a third arrest yesterday, in connection with a case of theft and illegal use of bank cards. He is a 25-year-old man, against whom an arrest warrant was pending.
The 25-year-old was spotted yesterday morning driving his car on the Limassol-Nicosia highway. He was stopped by members of the Traffic Headquarters (O.P.O.D.) and arrested to facilitate the investigations.
Four checks, three mobile phones, as well as eight bank cards belonging to other persons were found and confiscated in his possession, after a search. Also, in a search carried out at his home, in the province of Nicosia, a mobile phone as well as 520 packages of soft drinks and water were found and confiscated.
The 25-year-old is expected to appear before the Nicosia District Court today for the purpose of issuing a detention order.
It is recalled that, for the same case, two other persons, aged 29 and 18, are in custody.
The two were arrested on 29/09/2026, as part of an investigation into complaints submitted to the Police concerning the use of bank cards without the authorization of their holders to make purchases through an online application.
Yesterday, the two arrested appeared before the Nicosia District Court, which issued a decree against them renewing their detention for a period of eight days.
The offenses of securing goods with false representations, illegal interference, interception of electronic data and other offenses are being investigated against all three suspects.
The Financial Crime Investigation Team of the TAE Nicosia continues the examinations.
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The decision not to approve the requests for the suspension of the criminal prosecution of defendants in the case of the Central Prison documents was announced on Friday before the Permanent Criminal Court of Nicosia by the representative of the Prosecuting Authority, clarifying, however, that the Attorney General reserves the possibility to review his decision.
The Lawyer of the Republic A', Vassilis Bissas, stated before the Court that the Prosecuting Authority does not intend to approve the requests for suspension of the criminal prosecution of defendants 4 to 8, which were submitted to the Legal Service. He clarified, however, that this does not exclude the possibility that the Attorney General will review his decision.
At the same time, during the trial, the second accused, Athena Dimitriou, stated that she has not received all the witness material, talking about deficiencies in investigative testimonies, search warrants, as well as relevant attachments. She stated that, in her estimation, this material is in favor of the defense and for this reason it has not been handed over.
For his part, Mr. Bissas stated that the witness material had been given to the defense during the referral of the case and that the Legal Service is ready to immediately hand over what is left, if it is specified. He wondered, at the same time, why the issue concerns only the second defendant, while the other defendants have received the material. In relation to the defense's claim for the reason for his non-delivery, Mr. Bissas stated that he will not take a position, noting that "it is not of the present".
The Permanent Criminal Court of Nicosia set the case for a hearing on October 29, at 09:30.
It is recalled that the defendants in the case are the former Director of the Central Prisons, Anna Aristotelous, the former Deputy Director, Athena Dimitriou, five members of the penitentiary and a former member, now a police officer.
The defendants face nine common charges, including conspiracy to commit a felony and theft of state property, involving 48.432 documents, 370 architectural plans of the Central Prison and 431 objects with digital data.
The indictment also includes accusations of abuse of power in relation to the transfer of documents, drawings and digital data out of the Prison, specifically to the home of the chief warden. Anna Aristotelous faces an additional charge, as, according to the indictment, she allegedly allowed the leak of classified documents while holding the position of Director.
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Nineteen years after the car accident that changed his life, a motorcyclist is being vindicated in court, with the Supreme Court upholding damages of €35,000 for the injury he suffered. Specifically, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected the appeal of a female driver against the first-instance decision concerning compensation for the serious injury of the motorcyclist in 2007.
The decision was issued on October 8, 2026 by the Court of Appeal, consisting of Judges Stamatiou, Dimitriadou-Andreou and David, and essentially upholds the first-instance judgment as to the cause of the injury, the need for surgery and the amount of general compensation.
The case concerned a traffic accident that occurred on November 17, 2007 on Ilia Papakyriakou Street in Makedonitissa, between the vehicle driven by the appellant and the motorcycle driven by the respondent. During the first instance procedure, it was agreed that the driver's liability amounted to 80%, while the motorcyclist was charged with 20% of contributory negligence.
At the center of the difference was the rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament in the motorcyclist's left knee. The Court of First Instance had ruled that the injury was caused by the collision of the two vehicles, regardless of whether the knee collided with the vehicle or whether the rupture was caused by the subsequent fall of the motorcyclist on the asphalt.
The Supreme Court upheld this judgment, pointing out that the Court of First Instance had not considered the head-on impact of the knee as the only option. On the contrary, he had evaluated the data as a whole and had concluded that the injury was causally linked to the accident. As noted in the decision, it was not necessary to determine with absolute precision the mechanism by which the rupture was caused, but to prove, based on the balance of probabilities, that it was caused by the traffic accident.
The Court attached particular importance to medical testimony. The first orthopedist to examine the motorcyclist, two days after the accident, found a hemorrhage in his left knee and referred him for an MRI, which revealed the rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament. Later, another orthopedic surgeon confirmed the relevant findings and the severity of the injury.
The appellant had disputed, inter alia, the finding that the knee was instability to such an extent that surgery was required, as well as the assessment that post-traumatic arthritis was likely to occur in the future, which would lead to the need for total knee arthroplasty.
The Supreme Court, however, held that the first-instance decision was based on sufficient and reliable medical testimony. He underlined that the absence of degenerative lesions at the time of surgery does not rule out their future appearance, especially in the case of chronic instability due to a rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament.
The Court also rejected the complaints relating to a doctor's reference to a wrong knee. It considered that the reference to the right knee was explained by a corresponding error in the medical report and was not an indication of unreliability, as the other medical findings were compatible with the overall testimony.
The questioning of the hearing testimony concerning a medical council in Greece was also rejected. The Supreme Court noted that there was a relevant medical note, that the operation had been performed in Greece with state coverage and that during the first instance procedure no objection had been submitted to the filing of the relevant presumption nor had its non-acceptance been requested.
As far as the damages are concerned, the Court of First Instance had set the general compensation, for full liability, at €35,000, while awarding an additional €10,000 for the future need for arthroplasty and €760.68 for transport and accommodation costs of the motorcyclist and his mother. The amounts attributable to the plaintiff were reduced by 20%, due to his agreed joint negligence, with statutory interest and costs.
The appellant argued that the general indemnities of €35,000 were excessive and suggested that they should not exceed €25,000. The Supreme Court did not accept the argument, holding that, although the amount is at the highest permissible levels, it is not manifestly excessive to justify an intervention by the Court of Appeal.
In its decision, the Court took into account that the injury caused continuous instability of the left knee, pain and discomfort in daily activities, while depriving the motorcyclist of the opportunity to engage in sports activities that he previously practiced. Despite conservative treatment, including physiotherapy and medication, surgery, which was performed in Greece, was deemed necessary.
Decisive for the amount of compensation was, according to the Supreme Court, the assessment that the surgery did not definitively eliminate the consequences of the injury, as there is an almost certain possibility of developing post-traumatic arthritis at a later stage and, as a result, a need for total knee arthroplasty.
The Supreme Court concluded that none of the nine grounds of appeal was valid and dismissed the appeal. At the same time, it imposed on the appellant costs of €2,800, plus VAT, if any.
