Tourists remanded after Ecstasy find

FOUR Swedish tourists staying in Ayia Napa were yesterday remanded in custody for six days in connection with the alleged possession of 28 tablets of Ecstasy.

Giuseppe Magon, Kevin Sabban, and Thomas Johnson, all 19, and 21-year-old Peter Ericsson, all from Stockholm, were arrested in the early hours yesterday after police searched a flat and found 20 Ecstasy tablets in a bag, the Famagusta District Court, sitting in Larnaca heard.

Police subsequently found eight more pills under the seat of a moped.

The men said they knew nothing about the tablets the police had allegedly found.

The prosecution requested the men’s remand for six days because, the court was told, they were not co-operating and further investigations were needed.

Kypros Andreou, defending, did not object to the prosecution’s demand, but stressed the need for the case to be completed as soon as possible because of his clients’ age.

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