Panagiotis Kallitsionis, a 29-year-old private security guard, was shot dead by unknown individuals outside his paternal home in Ormidia, Larnaca province, on Thursday night.
According to the Police, around 23.11 last night, information was received at the KEM of Famagusta that shots were fired in Ormidia and one person was injured.
Members of the TAE and OPE Famagusta, Xylofagou, Xylotymbou Police Stations and the security supervisor went to the scene and from examinations it was found that around 22.55 was injured by a gun of a private security guard on a 29-year-old security guard, who of the house.
Ambulances from the British Base and the Police went to the spot, members of which provided first aid to the 29-year-old, but to no avail and succumbed to his injuries.
The stage was also visited by the Assistant Chief of Operations Dimitris Dimitriou, the Police Director of Famagusta George Economou, members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other police officers.
The scene was blocked by the Police and he is being guarded while a medical examiner is expected to go on the spot.
Speaking to the scene last night, Famagusta Police Director George Oikonomou said that “around 29 pm, a XNUMX-year-old Greek Cypriot man was killed in a village in the province of Larnaca. The victim is a person who has occupied the Police for various cases while the examinations are still in the initial stage ".
Asked whether the police were expecting a beating against the person who was injured during the quadruple murder that took place on June 23, 2016, in Ayia Napa, Mr. Oikonomou replied “we cannot say that we were expecting a beating or that this incident is linked to anything else. It's just that the incident happened today, June 25. "
Asked if the victim was shot, he replied that "he was shot, the number of which we do not yet know. The body will be examined both on stage by medical examiners and at the morgue. "
Asked if the victim had received threats recently, Mr Oikonomou said "this is not the case at this stage either, with the knowledge of the Police".
Asked if the victim was being monitored before the crime was committed, the Famagusta Police Chief replied that “this is part of the investigation. The members of TAE Famagusta receive deposits and this will be evident in the course of the investigations ". The case is being investigated by the Famagusta Police Department.
Who was Panagiotis Kallitsionis?
- Security guard and close associate of businessman Fanos Kalopsidiotis, who was killed in a deadly fire on June 23, 2016 in Ayia Napa along with three other people.
- An eyewitness and victim of the quadruple murder that rocked Cyprus as well as a prosecution witness in the long-awaited trial that followed and during which six people were convicted for the heinous crime.
- One of those arrested for the gangster execution of 33-year-old Gary Boris Christodoulou on the Agia Napa-Larnaca highway in 2018, which remains unsolved to this day.
- He was convicted of drug offenses for which he served a prison sentence at the Central Prison, from which he was released about a month ago.
The bloody June killings
The focus of the Police investigations is the possible connection of Kallitsioni's murder with the murders connected with the Kalopsidiotis family and all of which were committed in the last ten days of June, whether this is a coincidence or a deliberate date for the execution of the death contract.
From 2012 to 2020, 12 murders were recorded in eight years and one executor as a "collateral loss" with murders linked to the Holy Sepulcher.
- June 23, 2012: Five-fold murder of Ayia Napa
- June 20, 2014: Giannis Kalopsidiotis
- June 23, 2016: Four-time murder of Ayia Napa
- October 22, 2017: Kyriakos Hadjisavvas
- November 1, 2018: Gary Boris Christodoulou
- June 25, 2020: Panagiotis Kallitsionis ("Valentinos") falls from the fire of strangers who approached his paternal home in Ormidia and shot him with bullets
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