The 16-year-old was arrested shortly before two in the afternoon. , offenses committed on the evening of Wednesday 13 November.
It is noted that testimony was secured against the minor and a 20-year-old, on the basis of which arrest warrants were issued.
Information from the KYPE from the Police state that the minor was arrested around 13.44:XNUMX p.m. today outside his house in Aradippou, without putting up any resistance.
The 16-year-old was allegedly the driver of the car in which Giulia Mihaela Vasile, 18, from Romania, a permanent resident of Cyprus, was riding in the back seat, who died last night in a car accident.
The minor is expected to be brought before the Larnaca District Court tomorrow for the issuance of a detention order.
A second person, aged 20, is wanted for the case and is being investigated for the crime of leaving the scene of a road traffic collision without rendering assistance.
According to today's statements of Spyros Chrysostomos, press representative of the Larnaca Police Department, "the fatal traffic collision occurred around 19.20:13 on November 18. From the investigations so far by the Larnaca Traffic Department, it appears that a vehicle in which the XNUMX-year-old was a passenger, along with three other persons, while heading from the roundabout of the old GSZ towards the Faneromeni traffic lights on Artemis Avenue, deviated from its course to the left and successively hit a traffic sign and two trees where it stopped."
He added that "the driver and passenger of the vehicle left the scene before the arrival of the Police". The victim, according to Mr. Chrysostomou, "who was a passenger in the back seat, was fatally injured and was taken to Larnaca General Hospital where she was pronounced dead."
He noted that "a fourth person, aged 18, who was also a passenger in the back seat was injured and taken to Larnaca General Hospital, where after being given first aid, he was discharged."
As Mr. Chrysostomou said, "the 18-year-old was arrested on the basis of an arrest warrant for the offenses of conspiracy to commit a felony and theft, after the tests revealed that the vehicle involved in the road traffic collision had been stolen from Larnaca around one in the afternoon November 13th".
The 18-year-old "was brought before the Larnaca District Court today, which issued a detention order against him for eight days.
The Larnaca Traffic Department is investigating the road traffic collision and the Larnaca Traffic Police is investigating the theft of the vehicle.
