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Police officer injured in Napa
A policeman was slightly injured by a 21-year-old tourist in Ayia Napa on Wednesday night. At around 9pm, the officer attempted to stop a quad bike rider on Nissi Avenue for a routine inspection. The...
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€10,000 worth of valuable taken in robbery
Jewellery, cell phones and other items of value adding up to approximately €10,000 were stolen on Wednesday from a house in Zygi, police said. At around 2pm a Russian man staying in the house of a...
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‘If I hadn’t posted the video nothing would have been done’, lawyer says
By Andria Kades Nothing prevented the justice ministry or police chief from suspending the two officers seen beating up a young man, 26, in a video recorded last year made public this week, the head of...
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‘Beating’ police officers to be charged (Updated)
By Andria Kades Two police officers seen on video beating a man at Polis Chrysochous police station are expected to be charged today or tomorrow, the head of the Independent Authority for the...
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Remand for suspected rapist
A 20-year-old man was remanded on Thursday for five days in connection to the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in Paphos. The suspect faces charges of kidnapping, assault and rape. The man, who...
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Six day remand for suspected co-op embezzler
By Evie Andreou A 46-year-old employee of the Famagusta-Larnaca co-op bank was remanded on Thursday for six days in connection to the suspected embezzlement of around €100,000 from the Dromolaxia...
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Four days remand in connection with arson attack
By George Psyllides A 27-year-old was on Thursday remanded in custody for four days by a Larnaca court in connection with an arson attack perpetrated on August 16. Police said the man was arrested in...
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Remand for mother after child-kidnap allegation
A 35-year-old woman from the UK was remanded in custody for one day on Thursday for allegedly taking her eight-year old son out of the country without his father’s consent. The case was reported to...
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Police seeking man who picked up dropped wallet
Limassol police on Friday were seeking a man who stole a wallet containing €3,900 that was dropped earlier at the entrance of a convenience store. The owner of the wallet reported to police on Thursday...
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Mother charged with kidnapping her son
The 35-year-old woman from the UK who was arrested on Wednesday after being reported by her former partner for taking their eight-year-old child out of the country without his consent has been charged...
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Charges filed in police brutality case
By Angelos Anastasiou Criminal investigator Leonidas Papaspirou filed charges against the two policemen seen in a video viciously beating a young man in a police cell in Polis in February 2014,...
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Jewel thieves referred for trial
Three men have been referred to trial before the Limassol Criminal Court in connection with the theft in Limassol of a briefcase containing jewellery and cash worth €265,000. The three, aged 25, 26,...
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Car thief caught by members of public and handed to police
A 33-year-old man who was reportedly seen with an accomplice breaking into cars at the Mackenzie area in Larnaca was handed over to the police by members of the public on Friday night. According to...
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Cleaner arrested after putting urine in colleagues’ water (updated)
A 55-year-old woman from Sotira who works as a cleaner at the Famagusta state Hospital was arrested on Friday after she was caught on camera adding urine to her colleagues’ drinking water. According to...
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Syrian arrested with false ID
A 29-year-old man from Syria was remanded for four days on Saturday for allegedly attempting to travel abroad through the Larnaca airport with false documents. According to reports, the man, who was to...
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Remand of man wanted since March
A 34-year-old man from Paphos was remanded for six days on Saturday in connection with drug cultivation, possession and intent to supply others. The man, who was wanted by the police since March, was...
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Tales from the Coffeeshop: A well-timed chance to sermonise about our moral...
HACKS that had their normally inactive brains working overtime to think up a news story in the last fortnight, when the politicians were on holiday, must have been in church thanking the Lord on...
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Our View: Time we had proper authority to deal with police
The CCTV footage of the two policemen viciously beating up a man in a police cell in Polis would have shocked everyone who saw it. It was another case of police brutality and abuse of power, which many...
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Two arrested in separate speeding incidents
Two drivers, aged 20 were arrested on Sunday night for separate incidents of speeding, one in Geroskipou, Paphos and another on the Nicosia – Troodos road. The first man was driving at 107km per hour...
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Man steals taxi, hits 18 cars in police chase (Updated)
By Andria Kades A 32-year-old man from Nicosia is being looked after in the Athalassa mental health unit after stealing a taxi from a hotel on Sunday afternoon and damaging 18 cars and lightly injuring...
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