Case of possession of an offensive instrument, possession of an object that emits harmful gases, assault with actual bodily harm and theft of a telephone is being investigated by the Paphos Police with the victim being a 29-year-old, permanent resident of Paphos.
According to the Paphos Police Department's press spokesman and Head of the Paphos CID, Michael Nicolaou, the 29-year-old man reported that at 23:50 on Thursday he was attacked by three people.
Specifically, he said that at that time he was walking on Eleftherios Venizelos Avenue on his way to work at a bakery when he met three pedestrians on the street. The three persons were walking in opposite directions and at some point one of them approached him and hit him with a bat and subsequently fired harmful gases at him, according to his complaint.
The complainant, who was talking on his mobile phone, fell to the ground and fled for his life and then returned to the scene to find that his mobile phone had been stolen.
The 29-year-old was taken to the Accident and Emergency Department of Paphos General Hospital where, according to the doctor on duty, he sustained several abrasions on his arm. The incident is under investigation. Nicolaou noted that the motives of the perpetrators from preliminary examinations appear to be racist.
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