[Cyprus Times] 27-year-old man threatened to set himself on fire outside the Population and Immigration Records Department Police intervened

An alien doused himself with petrol and threatened to set himself on fire - He was protesting outside the building of the Population and Immigration Records Department housed on Makarios Avenue - The police were called and were spared the worst

T Mikaela Koulle

The police were mobilised on Wednesday morning after information that a foreign man doused himself with petrol and threatened to set himself on fire outside the building of the Population and Immigration Records Department, which is located on Makarios Avenue in the centre of Nicosia.

According to the Cyprus Times, the 27-year-old foreigner from Somalia was protesting and demanding to be deported from Cyprus, causing a disturbance.

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Members of the "Z" team and a patrol of the Central Police Station rushed to the scene who, after negotiations with the 27-year-old, persuaded him to calm down and not to set himself on fire.

The authorities, however, have arranged for him to receive his passport from the Purnara Migrant Accommodation Centre in order to be deported to his country in the coming days.

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