Police seeking more suspects in Napa club fracas
Police are reportedly looking for other people involved in the attack on employees of Naguib Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire investor behind the company building the new Ayia Napa marina, after a...
View ArticlePolice investigating alleged gun find at Larnaca airport (updated)
Police on Tuesday could not confirm a report it received from a man that he had found a pistol in the café outside Larnaca Airport on Monday night. Investigations were launched to track down a man...
View ArticlePolice searching for missing mother and daughter
Police are searching for the whereabouts of a 36-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter who have been reported missing from their Nicosia house since September 30. The missing, mother Livia...
View ArticleBelgium counter terror investigators probe police stabbing
Belgian counter terror prosecutors stepped in to investigate the stabbing of two police officers in Brussels on Wednesday, an indication the case was being treated as a possible militant attack....
View ArticleMotorcycle taken following accident
Limassol police are looking for a motorcycle removed from the scene of an accident Wednesday night before their arrival, while the owner is on life support in intensive care. The large capacity bike,...
View ArticleLarnaca teacher alleges attack by student (Updated)
Police are looking into a complaint made by a teacher that for as yet unknown reasons he was attacked by a 15-year-old boy at a Larnaca school, police said Thursday. According to police, students...
View ArticleTraffic-hit public reminded of ‘enormous benefits’ from Cyprus Rally
The inconvenience to the public should be weighed up against the benefits for Nicosia and Cyprus in general from the staging of the Cyprus Rally, the organising committee of the even said on Thursday....
View ArticleWarrant secured against man who sold borrowed crusher
Limassol police announced Thursday they had secured a judicial warrant against a 48-year-old man they suspect sold a crusher used in the building industry, that he had borrowed from a company he...
View ArticleExplosive device found outside home in Paphos
Paphos police are investigating the planting of an explosive device outside a residence in the Mouttalos refugee housing estate. The device, consisting of high explosives and flammable material, was...
View ArticleTwelve asylum seekers injured in fight
Twelve people were slightly injured on Thursday evening in an incident between two asylum seeking families hosted at the Kofinou reception centre. Police say that at around 9pm a quarrel broke out...
View ArticleXiourouppas murder trial adjourned
Larnaca court Friday adjourned until October 26 the trial of Giorgos Xiourouppas for the murder in April of Panayiotis Christodoulou. State prosecutor Thanassis Papanikolaou told the court he had...
View ArticleGirl, 17, reported missing
Police are asking the public to lookout for a girl reported missing from her home in Paphos since Thursday 2pm. Seventeen-year-old Greek passport-holder Marietta Michaelidou is described as thin,...
View ArticleSuspected burglars due in court
Two men were due to appear at the Paphos court on Sunday on suspicion of possessing stolen goods and cash. The men aged 42 and 36 were stopped by police on Saturday afternoon by traffic police while...
View ArticleCar bomb attack kills 6 soldiers in southeast Turkey – sources
Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a border region of the country’s southeast, security sources...
View ArticleTrail goes cold in German hunt for man suspected of planning bomb attack
The trail went cold on Sunday in a German police manhunt for a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack after a raid on an apartment in which a cache of explosives was found. “We are...
View ArticleTwo year sentence for cannabis possession
Limassol court sentenced a 27-year-old man to two years’ imprisonment for illegal possession of cannabis with intent to supply. The man was caught by the drug squad in January 2015 after being stopped...
View ArticleBrazilians suspected of importing coke remanded in Larnaca
A Brazilian couple was remanded for eight days Wednesday, by Larnaca court in connection with investigations into the illegal importation, possession, and intent to supply drugs. Police said following...
View ArticleBlitz on illegal bird trappers
XYLOFAGOU and Xylotympou police were kept busy over the last couple of days with a number of cases involving offences of illegal bird trapping in the Famagusta area. Five men aged 31, 49, 52, 56, and...
View ArticleStolen car torched
A burnt out car was found in a field after police received information at around 12.30am Thursday of a fire in Pyla, in Larnaca district. From investigations carried out, it was verified the vehicle...
View ArticleAnastasiades says ‘will not tolerate’ suggestion he favoured in-laws in...
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday night called on the auditor-general to “immediately” investigate allegations implying his in-laws had been favoured in a tender for the procurement of four...
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