#crime cyprus

Three people wearing hoods and bearing knives were reported to have robbed a kiosk in the Touz Hane Turkish Cypriot neighbourhood in Larnaca at around midnight. The police said the ...

A 50-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Thursday night for allegedly promising a woman to arrange her illegal transfer from abroad to Cyprus, police said on Friday. The arrest ...

Two people, aged 23 and 16, were arrested for allegedly breaking into a primary school and causing damage of about €500 to classrooms and equipment in Limassol on Thursday night. Police arrived at ...

The Nicosia District Court issued an eight-day remand order on Friday against a 32-year-old man, who was arrested for facilitating interrogations regarding ongoing cases of robbery and extortion of money ...

A total of seven people have been held responsible for the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005, according to reports on Saturday. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that the report into the ...

A 49-year-old Swedish man will serve as the prosecution’s key witness against a lawyer and a police officer accused of aiding his escape from a private clinic in Larnaca ...

Three people were arrested on Monday in Nicosia for robberies, torching a car and possession of drugs. The police said the residence of a 23-year-old was searched on Monday as ...

A man appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of having attempted to import 4,200 lots of what the court described as “sexual power enhancing gel” into the north. The ...

A 34-year-old man was remanded in custody for four days on Friday by the Larnaca court on suspicion of theft. Police charged him with theft, possession of burglary tools, and ...

Two more people were arrested in the early hours of Thursday in connection with police investigations into the bizarre criminal groups which has made headlines in recent weeks after using ...

The Larnaca District Court issued a seven-day remand order against a 37-year-old woman in connection with theft from a house on January 31. Police said an arrest warrant had been issued ...

The Netherlands has sent an extradition request to Sierra Leone for convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, the Dutch justice minister said on Thursday, adding that he hoped to find the ...

A policewoman sustained leg injuries during incidents after the AEK vs AEL football match in Larnaca on Sunday, when fans hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and flares against police officers. The ...

A 41-year-old man will be taken before Larnaca district court on Monday after he was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of theft, acceptance of stolen goods, illegal possession of property ...

Police arrested four suspects in Limassol on Tuesday in connection with theft and illegal drug possession. Authorities launched an investigation after a resident reported that, between January 21-28, thieves stole ...

Paphos district court issued three-day remand orders against two people, aged 37 and 34, to facilitate investigations into a burglary. Police said the suspects were found in possession of property stolen from ...

A third person was arrested after 9pm on Monday in Larnaca to facilitate investigations into the January 9 attempted murder of a 30-year-old in Kornos. The man, aged 24, is a foreigner ...

A bullet casing was found in the car driven by the 37-year-old suspect in the case surrounding the death of 24-year-old Shoaib Khan in the buffer zone-adjacent village of Potamia, ...

Nine Real Sociedad fans were injured in central Rome during clashes with Lazio supporters on the eve of Thursday’s Europa League match between the two teams, police said. About 70 ...

Serbian Deyian Loi, convicted to life in Cyprus for the quadruple murder in Ayia Napa of June 23, 2016, has been interviewed on a British podcast while in the Nicosia central prisons. ...

A 46-year-old woman, who was allegedly shot on Sunday afternoon by her husband in their home in Peyia, Paphos, has been extubated and her condition is described as serious but ...

The 39-year-old man from Cameroon, who has been arrested in connection with the death of 24-year-old Pakistani national Shoaib Khan, has started to talk, sources told the Cyprus News Agency (...

A 45-year-old man was remanded in custody for seven days after being allegedly involved in case and stealing more than €700,000. The suspect, who allegedly denies these allegations, was arrested on ...

A 29-year-old man was found heavily injured at 1.10am at an abandoned building site in Limassol. Police said the man appeared to have been hit in the back with a ...