The Movement whose MP candidate was arrested on Sunday morning went on the counterattack.
According to a statement by the Movement of Active Citizens - Movement of United Cypriot Hunters, "unacceptable behavior and excessive violence was used by a police officer against our candidate in Limassol".
Such is the announcement
"Challenge by a police officer and arrest of our candidate
We condemn any action aimed at selective law enforcement, especially on the day that Democracy and its citizens should celebrate.
Unacceptable behavior and excessive violence was used by a police officer against our candidate in Limassol. Specifically, the candidate of our Movement, Lefteris Eleftheriou, while voting and leaving the center, took off his protective mask. He was then verbally and provocatively attacked by a specific police officer, with the result that the two of them came into conflict. The police, with excessive violence and based only on the testimony of the specific provocative police officer, arrested the candidate MP and took him to the department, to be charged with assault against a police officer. In the episode, there were witnesses who testify to the excessive violence against a citizen by the police but also to the challenge that our candidate accepted ".
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