#sports violence

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 ...

Cabinet on Wednesday ratified the amendment to legislation regarding the prevention and suppression of violence in sports venues. This amendment introduces graduated penalties and increases the duration of exclusion from ...

Resistance to reforms and changes promoted comes from the effort to protect specific interests but the government will not succumb to such pressures, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou said on ...

Three officers were reportedly blamed for the rioting that unfolded at a basketball match last month in a report drawn up by the police and handed to the justice minister ...

Police unions decried the government’s measures aimed at tackling hooliganism as “unrealistic”, while it pointed out that others already exist but are not enforced. Nikos Loizides, head of the ...