“Wild West and the government is looking for measures,” shouted Monday’s front-page headline, reporting: “Wild murders, armed robberies, bombs in cars, shops, houses. Drugs, gunfire in a residential area with a policeman being seriously wounded…. The sense of insecurity of citizens is at its peak.” The next day it said the government was “Sleeping while crime rages.”

Phed Express claimed Paphos cops had stopped carrying out narcotests so as not to highlight the town’s high drug
THE WILD West needs a sheriff and Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos seems perfectly suited for the role. Strangely for once the auditor-general did not try to take over the proceedings – he did not even undertake an investigation of the shootout to establish whether the firing of bullets by officers in self-defence was a waste of public money– leaving the Phed Express of Paphos an open field.
He was in his element, ranting and raving against the police force which included “perjurers, corrupt and incompetent officers that encourage criminal elements… instead of being thrown out of the force these officers are given promotions and stars.”
One of those wanted for the Ypsonas case (he was speaking on Monday before the arrest), the mayor said he had reported publicly at least 10 times in the past and gave information about his activities to the police. This person led a big drug ring with a turnover of many millions of euros, while two shops in Kato Paphos “were converted to supermarkets for hard drugs and dangerous narcotic substances”.
Drug use in Paphos had taken dramatic dimensions, Phed Express warned, and claimed the cops had stopped carrying out narcotests so as not to highlight the town’s high drug use among the young. Apparently the positive tests were disproportionately high for the size of the town. This is what happens when you have two supermarkets for hard drugs in the town and the police do nothing about it.
https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/05/13/tale ... magustans/