Police release photo of Paphos burglary suspect (PICTURE)

[Paphos Life]

The police on Friday released the photo of a man suspected of being behind a string of burglaries and thefts in the Paphos district between July 7 and August 28.According to the police, the suspect is 35-year-old Constantinos Balabanides, a Russian national....

Read the article and chat about it below...

[trevnhil]

http://in-cyprus.com/police-release-pho ... t-picture/

The robbers used a blue/silver Pajero io stolen from Chlorakas later found burnt out in Mesogi.

So he was a convicted murderer who'd been previously released under a Christmas Presidential pardon? I imagine all the politicians currently banged up are getting their hopes up!

I didn't see anything about the Paphos Computer's shop robbery in the article... or have I missed it ?

[memory man]

This is taken from Paphos Press.

PAFOS: This is the dangerous villain that the Police are looking for (PHOTO)



Marked and known to the prosecuting authorities are at least one of the two burglars who beat two times, within a month, an electronics store on the coastal road of Paphos-Peyia at the height of the Kissonerga community.

The police are now in the hands of the results of the DNA tests, which prove that one of the burglars, the one who cut off his foot in trying to break the glass entrance of the store's office, is the Greek expatriate Konstantinos Balabanidis. Balabanidis was born in Russia in 1982 and holds Greek citizenship. In the past, and in particular in 2006, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for homicide. The suspect only served eight years in jail and was released on December 23, 2014, two days before Christmas, with a presidential pardon.

As you can see from the video captured and presented by SIGMA, from the closed tracking circuit of the shop that the perpetrators beat, they are people who seem to be professionals because although it took a three hour plan to turn off the alarm system and they entered the shop in just three minutes and they all gathered everything and became smoke.

Today, after evaluating all the data she has in the hands of the Police, she has issued a notice to seek Balabanidis to facilitate investigations.

[trevnhil]

Yes, this different account certainly seems to mentions the computer shop..

[memory man]

Yes, and the bit about

the one who cut off his foot in trying to break the glass entrance

[trevnhil]

Yes I noticed that... They are looking for a man with a bad limp..

[Dominic]

I love the way that WANTED is all over the guy's face. I am going to merge this thread with the other one created automatically. I got confused because when I looked it said this thread was deleted, when clearly it wasn't.

Wish me luck...

[PhotoLady]

Yes I noticed that... They are looking for a man with a bad limp..

Lol it sounds like he should have more than just a bad limp. Let's hope so anyway! It certainly beats cutting the hands off thieves...