#arrests

Suspects have been arrested over the brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre, just as one of them was about to fly out of France, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. ...

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in Limassol after police found a machete-type knife in his car and discovered he was wanted in connection with a serious assault case. The ...

A man arrested at Nice airport on Monday owns a large construction firm in northern Cyprus, with his arrest having been confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by diplomatic sources on ...

Bulgarian police on Tuesday reportedly confirmed that Russian-Cypriot Igor Grechushkin was arrested at Sofia airport over his alleged involvement in the 2020 Beirut blast, killing at least 218 people. Forty-eight-year-old Grechushkin, said ...

Limassol district court on Thursday ordered two women remanded in police custody, after their arrest on suspicion of fraud. The two suspects will be held in police custody for five ...

A 36 year-old Ukrainian was arrested at Larnaca airport on Friday evening after it was found that he was wanted by Ukrainian authorities. “The 36-year-old is allegedly related to a case ...

Police arrested a 55-year-old man on August 31, in connection with a series of burglaries and thefts in Famagusta district. According to the police communication branch, testimony linked the man to ...

Two men were arrested in Larnaca on Friday after police said they discovered tools which could be used to facilitate a break-in and other valuables in their car. The suspects, ...

A 31-year-old man has been remanded for theft in a Larnaca property committed between August 14 and 16, police said on Thursday. Upon a witness testimony, the man was arrested on Wednesday ...

An 18-year-old from India was allegedly kidnapped in Famagusta area earlier this month by compatriots, who locked him in an apartment room for a week, the police said on Thursday. ...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu, the secretary-general of the north’s largest political party, the UBP, on Tuesday night said he and his party “strongly reject” a European Commission’s spokesman’s comments ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday night accused the Republic of Cyprus of intending to “mislead the public” in its reaction to the arrest of five Greek Cypriots in ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun’s son Salih Ozgurgun was arrested late on Monday night after arriving at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on an inbound flight ...

A large street fight in Limassol on Thursday night led to the arrest of seven people, police said. All are due in court this morning. According to the police, the ...

A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a violent robbery in Limassol, police confirmed on Thursday. The incident happened on the night of April 1. According to the complaint, ...

A second 21-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia in connection with a six kilogram drug seizure, police said on Thursday. Officers from the drug law enforcement unit (Ykan) carried out ...

A 28-year-old man was arrested in Famagusta after illegal drugs were found at his home and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, police said. The operation was carried ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, who served in post between 2005 and 2010, on Tuesday expressed surprise at the ongoing detention of five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the ...

There can be “no tolerance for arbitrary detentions”, European parliament president Roberta Metsola’s spokesman Juri Laas said on Monday in response to the arrest and continued remand of five ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested on suspicion of espionage in the north last month in the early hours of Saturday morning learned that they will remain in custody ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested on suspicion of espionage in the north last month spent more than ten hours in a military court in northern Nicosia on Friday. ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is providing humanitarian assistance to the five Greek Cypriots who remain in custody after having been arrested in the north on suspicion ...

Two of the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested near the village of Galatia, near Trikomo, on suspicion of espionage, were all remanded in custody for a further three months ...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Sunday morning in Larnaca, as part of a police investigation into a stabbing incident. According to the police communication branch, officers were carrying out ...