#firecrackers

No injuries from firecrackers were reported during the Easter holidays, police said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, in a police crackdown on illegal possession of fireworks and other explosives, a total of ...

Police made multiple arrests across the country of people carrying firecrackers and other pyrotechnic paraphernalia on Easter Saturday. One 18-year-old man was arrested near the Ayia Marina church in Limassol ...

A 23-year-old was arrested on Wednesday, under suspicion of illegally possessing thousands of firecrackers, police said. According to police, the man was found to be in possession of 1,980 firecrackers at ...

Police on Tuesday released three individuals after charging them, following altercations involving a large crowd in Astromeritis. Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, police spokesman Christos Andreou said two people ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Wednesday evening after being found to be in possession of firecrackers. Police stopped the man’s car for a search at around 10.30...

Police in Limassol on Thursday night arrested a 23-year-old man for possession of various pyrotechnic paraphernalia. The man was found to have had two flares, four large nautical flares, and ...

Three men denied all charges on Tuesday after they were arrested for possession of explosive material: about 96,000 firecrackers. Paphos criminal court was told that the defendants – aged 24, 31 and 34 – were found ...

Three men in Paphos pled not guilty to charges of illegal possession of explosives on Monday after being found in possession of more than 96,000 firecrackers in March. According to police ...

Police have warned the public in the Nicosia district to expect a series of loud explosions in the area of Analyondas until 20pm on Sunday as they destroy the thousands ...

Two separate arrests in Limassol led to police seizing over 2,000 firecrackers and a number of torches, police said on Friday. The first was a 17-year-old who was detained on Thursday ...

The police clampdown ahead of the Easter bonfire season has had to keep up with the times after it emerged on Tuesday there was a TikTok account offering firecrackers costing ...

Two 19-year-olds from Limassol were arrested on Friday after they bought 400 firecrackers from a shop in Pyla. Larnaca police spokesman Charis Hadjiyiasemis said officers are currently working on a campaign ...

Three men pleaded not guilty to charges of illegal possession and transport of explosives on Thursday at the Paphos criminal court. They had been arrested after police officers found them ...

Three teenagers who were found to be illegally in a residence in Paphos with burglary tools have been arrested, police said on Sunday. Following a tip-off, officers allegedly caught the 15...

Three minors were charged in writing on Wednesday for attempted property destruction in a chapel in Paphos. Police arrested the youths, aged aged 14, 15 and 16, on Tuesday, following interrogation, for setting ...

Firecrackers are neither toys nor are they a tradition, the police stated on Wednesday as they announced heightened clampdown efforts in the lead-up to Easter. The warning came shortly after ...

A Limassol secondary school descended into chaos on Friday morning as groups of hooded youths threw Molotov cocktails, smoke bombs and firecrackers. Police received a call at around 9am of ...

It is impossible to stop the use of fireworks in residential areas, a police inspector said on Friday noting that authorities focus on prevention and have confiscated some 3,000 kilos of ...

Members of the Larnaca police found a large number of firecrackers in the possession of a 15-year-old minor, after a check on Sunday night. The minor was spotted moving on ...

Paphos police on Friday said they confiscated over 100 firecrackers in Pyla and Polis Chrysochous. Some 80 firecrackers were found during a search in the car of a 19-year-old man who was ...

Police on Saturday said they confiscated over 500 firecrackers in Limassol and Nicosia, two weeks before Easter. Following a tip-off, police conducted a search in the house of a 28-year-old man ...

Over 850 firecrackers have been seized by the police in the run up to Easter, which are thought to have come from the north. Police said on Sunday that during checks ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested and subsequently remanded for eight days late on Sunday after police found illegal drugs and firecrackers in his house in Larnaca. Following a tip-off, the ...

Police confiscated 22,745 crackers and fireworks on Tuesday in Nicosia, subsequently arresting a 22-year-old man. According to police, acting on information, around 4.30 pm on Tuesday, officers searched two vehicles owned by ...