A serious case of complaint against the Limassol police director Nikos Nikos by a citizen, is called to be investigated by the Independent Authority for the Investigation of Allegations and Complaints against the Police. The Authority has referred the matter to the Attorney General, who is called upon to give the green light for the appointment of a criminal investigator.
The case became known after the citizen posted on social media where he narrates the events. According to his own claim, the police director, in uniform, parked outside the taxi office blocking access to it. Then, the complainant told him to move it because it was blocking. According to the citizen, the policeman reacted by saying “do you know who I am?”, While he tried to attack him. After the intervention of other people who were there, the spirits calmed down for a while, with the policeman saying to the citizen, “shout at me again if you are a dude” and he would answer “I am”. According to the citizen in his post, the policeman left the scene and returned later, and called three more patrol cars to arrest the protester.
Beat him in the middle
Members of the Police, who, as the citizen mentions in his post, arrested him and took him to the department. There the police director hit him in the middle, although the complainant had reported that he had recently undergone spinal fusion surgery. The accused claims that the policeman told him “do you have a pain in your back now in a maguine?”, Hitting him low in the middle.
The complainant was taken to the Minor Offenses Department where he stayed for 3-4 hours, without, as he claims, being given the right to contact a lawyer, while he was denied contact with a doctor, although he informed them about the problem in his waist. At the same time, he expresses some allegations of insult by the police director.
He denies everything
For his part, the Limassol police director categorically denies what The Independent Authority for the Investigation of Allegations and Complaints against the Police, where it collects evidence for the case, especially from the closed circuits , both outside the taxi office and inside the Limassol Police Department.
Employed again
According to “P”, the officer Police have been in the news in the past, when they refused to undergo a rapid test at the airport. The check was then carried out randomly on their flight, with two police officers refusing to be checked, which forced the civil aviation to intervene. An investigation was ordered against the two for that incident and a disciplinary procedure was decided.
