Police arrested a 36-year-old man in Limassol on Wednesday night after locating a quantity of flares, smoke bombs and fireworks launchers.
According to the Limassol CID, following a tip-off, members of the Limassol CID searched, between the hours of 19.00 and 19.40, the home of the 36-year-old. In a storage room of the house 51 fireworks launchers of 25 shots, 34 pieces of multi-launchers of ground fireworks of 49 shots, 101 launchers of 5 shots, 171 smoke grenades, 33 torches, 201 fireworks launchers of 8 shots and 3 multi-launchers of ground fireworks of 64 shots were found.
The 36-year-old man was arrested for the offence of illegal possession of explosives, while under interrogation he allegedly confessed that some of the recovered explosives were imported from abroad and the rest were brought from the occupied territories. The Limassol CID is continuing investigations.
(CNA/SK/AGG)
CNA - Stavros Koniotis
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