Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaidis has condemned Friday night’s racial violence in Limassol saying it was completely unacceptable that lives and properties were put at risk.
Nikolaidis, who visited the pier area where the greatest damage to properties and vehicles was recorded, said that it is completely unacceptable for a modern city to be put under siege, to cause thousands of euros worth of damage to public and private property and to risk the loss of human lives.
He also commented on the police’s failure to control the rampaging mobs.
The competent agencies of the state must protect public safety and order, human lives and property in a active and effective manner, both at a preventive and repressive level, he said.
If effective measures are not taken, the situation will become uncontrollable with dangerous and incalculable effects on social stability. This, as a society, we must never allow.
A new official update from the police is expected on the incidents, while the force’s response was the subject of a hurried meeting convened by police chief Stelios Papatheodorou, at the Limassol police department.
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