The Nicosia Crime Investigation Department has been examining a serious but at the same time unprecedented case since yesterday afternoon.
As reported to the Police, A woman's grave was desecrated in the Maronite cemetery on the Anthoupolis - Agioi Trimithia road and her body may have been stolen.
TAE investigators, as well as members of the Police Criminological Investigation Service, rushed to the spot immediately for the preliminary examinations.
According to information from "P", The stranger or strangers dug to the place where the coffin of the woman who had died five years ago was located, and threw a quantity of lime on top.
That is why the Police could not officially clarify until late last night whether the body was stolen.
This will be clarified this morning, when examinations are expected at the grave. For this purpose, members of the forensic service of the Republic, as well as an anthropologist will go to the spot.
Drug case
It seems, however, that the desecration of the tomb also has implications for court reporting. According to the police investigations so far, this act may be related to a serious drug case involving a large amount of cocaine.
The grave belongs to the mother of a 40-year-old prosecution witness in the case. In fact, this person has joined a witness protection program, as his testimony seems to be particularly burdensome for a person who is being held in the Central Prison.
The same sources of information state that This is a defendant facing charges before the Criminal Court for very serious drug cases.
Threats
The prosecution witness, according to police sources, allegedly received threats from the first moment he decided to testify against the accused.
Prior to yesterday's incident, a person reportedly told him that he would regret what he was going to do, and in particular his decision to testify as a prosecution witness.
Other sources make it clear that the killings were carried out in a manner that would have harmed his father. In fact, the Police are said to have monitored the house of the latter.
Weakness of courts…
Information indicates that from the first moment it became known that the grave of the mother witness was desecrated, this development has been the concern of high-ranking officials of the Cyprus Police.
There is talk of a weakness of the judiciary. More specifically, comments on the tolerance of Criminal Courts which has the effect of delaying the trial of serious cases. A well-informed source of "P" stated that "there are cases that have been registered for more than a year, and yet the hearings have not even started".
The same source added that cases are affected by this delay, since "we even had witnesses who are no longer able to testify".
He concluded by saying that "high-ranking police officers attribute these phenomena to the tolerance of judges who constantly postpone hearings for various reasons put forward by the defense".
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