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Bulgarian pickpockets remanded
A Bulgarian man and woman aged 27 and 35 were remanded by Limassol district court in connection with stealing from unsuspecting supermarket shoppers on Saturday. The actions of the two suspects were...
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Call for more police patrols in Napa
Ayia Napa is making headlines this summer after a mafia hit and a fatal stabbing, but tourists say they feel safe as similar incidents can happen in most European towns of similar size, particularly on...
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Runaway boys found safe and sound after all-night search
Two Russian lads aged 11 and 12 who were reported missing from their houses since Sunday afternoon were found safe and well, not far from home, following an all-night search. The extensive search was...
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Car damaged by fire
The Paphos fire service were called out at 3.35am on Monday to put out a fire that had broken out in a car in the parking area of its 25-year-old owner’s house. The blaze was put out with...
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Man arrested after Nicosia kiosk arson
A 38-year-old was arrested Monday in connection with setting fire to a Nicosia kiosk after police secured testimony against him following investigations at the scene. The fire service was called at...
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Ayia Napa mulls CCTV system after murder
Ayia Napa municipality plans on installing security cameras in central parts of the town for the protection of the public, Mayor Yiannis Karousos said. The move comes following calls of locals and...
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Police seek Syrian man in connection with people smuggling
Police said on Tuesday they were seeking Ahmed Badawi, 25 from Syria to facilitate investigations connected with conspiracy to commit a crime and assisting illegal immigrants to enter or stay in the...
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Police find possible Molotov stash
Limassol police on Sunday found 12 bottles containing flammable fluid in the boot of a car. The bottles were found at around 4.15pm in the boot of an immobilised car parked at a block of flats. They...
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Man stops to eat at bakery, forgets bag with diamonds worth €200,000
A bag containing four diamonds worth €200,000 in total was reported stolen on Monday from outside a bakery in Larnaca. Police said that the diamonds belong to a man from Russia who lives permanently in...
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Arrest for growing cannabis (updated)
A 34-year-old man was remanded on Tuesday for three days after police found three cannabis plants in his Paphos apartment. He was arrested on Monday when following a tip off, drug squad officers found...
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Man gives himself up after three-hour siege (update 3)
After a three-hour standoff on Tuesday a man armed with a shotgun who had threatened to kill himself before firing the gun into the air gave himself up quietly in Anthoupolis, Nicosia. Police were...
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Arrest warrant issued for ex-convict after linked to rapes
Police have issued an international arrest warrant for a 41-year-old Romanian man after his genetic material matched samples collected from the victims of two rapes committed in Limassol in 2009 and...
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Erimi man remanded for possession of 17kg of cannabis (Updated)
A 57-year-old man from the village of Erimi was remanded for eight days in Limassol on Wednesday following the alleged discovery of 17kg of cannabis in his car and home on Tuesday evening. “At around...
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Driver arrested five times over the limit
A 34-year-old driver in Limassol was arrested early Thursday morning following an accident after being found to be over five times the legal alcohol limit. Police were called to the scene of an...
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Seat-belt campaign ends with 800 bookings
Police issued just short of 800 tickets to drivers and passengers for not buckling up, during a week-long campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need to use seatbelts. A total of 797 fines were...
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Phedonos makes new graft allegations, says officials demanded kickbacks from...
PAPHOS Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has charged that state and local officials had demanded kickbacks from oilfield service giant Schlumberger, that was looking to set up its base of operations in Larnaca a...
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Our View: Death by tea bag – police confused over what defines a ‘lethal weapon’
POLICE in Cyprus seem to be obsessed with drugs to the point where they went around a number of kiosks in Ayia Napa and Paralimni last weekend seizing small packets of hemp tea. The importers and...
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Police officer injured in car chase
A female police office was slightly injured after falling to the ground when she was hit by a car she and a fellow officer had been pursuing in Larnaca early on Saturday morning. The incident happened...
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Man caught driving at 209km/h
A 29-year-old from Aradippou was stopped by police on the Ayia Napa-Rizoelia highway driving at 209km/h, in an area where the speed limit is 100. According to police, traffic police stopped the civil...
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Pensioner killed in road collision
An 84-year-old man from Dromolaxia was killed in a road collision on Sunday near the roundabout of Kalo Chorio leading to Larnaca airport involving his car and a vehicle coming in the opposite...
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