Limassol district court remanded three young men for eight days following suspicions they robbed a delivery driver last week, the city’s police spokesman Lefteris Kyriacou said on Sunday.
Police are also searching for a 21-year-old man in connection with the incident on January 15, while the suspects are also believed to have been involved in similar incidents in the past.
As Kyriacou said in his statements, in the context of investigations by police, in areas where attacks and robberies on food distributors and women walking on the street have been recorded recently, several pieces of evidence have been secured.
After evaluating evidence, the police proceeded to arrest a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old in connection with the robbery of a delivery driver committed near a park in an old Turkish Cypriot neighbourhood of the city on January 15, he added.
The three suspects were brought before the court, which ordered their remand for eight days, while a 21-year-old, whose photo was released on Saturday, is wanted.
“We believe and there are indications that someone or some of them are involved in other cases that have been committed recently in Limassol,” said Kyriacou, expressing the position that these attacks did not have any racist motive but “the purpose was theft and profit making”.
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