Crime

Police on Monday announced eight measures aimed at tackling organised crime and football violence, including increasing the number of front-line officers, more patrols and inspections on all sports fans attending ...

The Court of Appeal on Monday overturned the acquittal of a man who had been accused of possessing and supplying illegal drugs, sentencing him to seven months in prison. The ...

Authorities on Monday were investigating after they received news about gunshots in the Pallouriotissa area of Nicosia. According to reports, at around 10pm on Sunday a group of ten people ...

Paphos District Court issued a three-day remand order on Saturday against a 26-year-old man to facilitate investigations into a case of forgery. According to the police, the man had been ...

Two Greek soldiers were attacked in Athalassa park in Nicosia on Sunday evening. Police on Monday reported that the two 24-year-olds were attacked by a group of unknown perpetrators, while ...

Police arrested a 30-year-old man in Nicosia for illegal drugs possession with intent to supply, the force announced on Monday. Officers arrested the Nicosia resident around 10pm on Sunday when ...

A health ministry decision mandating all adult rape and sexual violence victims go to Nicosia’s Makario hospital for any examination, irrespective of which city they live in, has sparked ...

The state official who refused an alcohol test last week should have resigned, Akel MP Irene Charalambidou reiterated on Saturday. The incident took place at 2.30am on January 11 in Nicosia, ...

Five men were on Saturday remanded for eight days for stealing transformers from the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) and causing damage of over €100,000 in the past three months. The suspects ...

Limassol police arrested a fourth suspect in connection with the assault of an individual earlier this month, it was announced on Saturday. The arrest of the 24-year-old suspect took place ...

The 22-year-old who was arrested for throwing a firecracker that hit a player during the Salamina – Apoel match has been released. According to the police, the young man from Nicosia ...

A Greek man has been arrested in the north for attacking an individual while yelling ‘Turks out’, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. The suspect was brought on Friday before ...

Four men were on Friday handed long prison sentences in Istanbul for the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali and his chauffeur in February 2022. Mustafa Soylemez, who fired the ...

Inmates at Cyprus’ central prison have engaged in a hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine, according to reports. The prisoners, rumoured to number as many as 50, have ...

Two people were arrested in Paphos on Thursday night after being found in possession of tools which could be used to facilitate a burglary and an electric scooter for which ...

A 28-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night for drunkenly attacking a policeman. According to the Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou, police descended on Poseidon ...

Paphos police announced on Friday the arrest of a man in connection with the torching of a police officer’s car. The man, aged 43 and from Limassol, was arrested on ...

The third defendant in the golden passports trial pleaded not guilty on Thursday during a hearing at Nicosia criminal court, while a new state prosecutor has been assigned to the ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the Footballers’ Association (Pasp) both called for radical measures to combat football violence following a meeting on Thursday. A set of suggested measures were ...

Five poles belonging to the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) and aerial cables attached to them were stolen in the village of Ayios Mamas, near Limassol. According to the police, the ...

Police in Paphos are investigating a fire that broke out in the early hours of Thursday in the courtyard of a tyre shop, which was set deliberately. Paphos police spokesperson ...

Police in Paphos are actively pursuing leads to identify the perpetrators behind Tuesday night’s attack on a public prosecutor’s car. The investigation is focusing on closed-circuit surveillance systems ...

A 38-year-old man was arrested on Thursday to help police investigations regarding a car theft and illegal possession of property in Larnaca. Police said that shortly midnight, officers in Larnaca ...

In response to the surge of criminal activities throughout Cyprus in recent weeks, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou has proposed the deployment of armed patrols in the streets, it was announced ...