SIMERINI: “A life worth only £2,000”. A Paphos court fined a French tourist £2,000 and suspended his driving licence for 12 months after he collided and killed 21-year-old Giorgos Georgiou from Yeroskipou last Sunday. The accident happened at around 2.30pm in the Kato Paphos area, when the French tourist, driving a rental car with four other passengers, tried to enter a parking lot from the main road and crashed into Georgiou’s motorbike.
PHILELEFTHEROS: “The president was informed about Matsakis”. President Tassos Papadopoulos was aware of MEP Marios Matsakis’ involvement in a bribery case. According to the allegations, the DIKO deputy agreed to accept money from a police officer in exchange for writing a report in his favour. The officer in question was under criminal investigation at the time. Matsakis has pleaded innocent and the first political reactions have been contained, waiting for how the story unfolds.
ALITHIA: “Cyprus is proud of her Super Idol”. From the word go, his voice impressed the judges, co-ordinators and all the Super Idol viewers in both Greece and Cyprus. Week after week, the odds were raised and finally on Thursday night, young Stavros from Nicosia got to the top. After eight months of hard work and suspense he managed to secure the title of ‘Super Idol’, simultaneously bringing honour to all of Cyprus.
MACHI: “Rape or masturbation is the question”. A 43-year-old man from the Larnaca district was arrested and remanded in six-day custody on suspicion of raping a Filipina housemaid. The 25-year-old woman alleges she worked for the man’s sister and that the incident took place while her employer was abroad. According to the man, however, although his intent was to have sexual intercourse with the young woman, he says he ended up masturbating and denies raping her.
POLITIS: “73-year-old dead after fall down a cliff”. A 73-year-old farmer was tragically killed on Thursday morning after his tractor toppled over a cliff near Kalavassos dam. According to police, Nicos Kanarkotis, 73, was found unconscious just before 10am at the bottom of a four-metre cliff, just off the main Kalavassos-Kalavassos dam road. Twenty metres away his tractor was found overturned. Police determined that somewhere along the way, Kanarkotis lost control of his vehicle.
KYPROS SIMERA: “A slap in Europe’s face”. The high abstention observed in the Euro elections, in almost all European countries, just goes to prove the European citizen’s indifference as well as his displeasure with the European Union. The EU is no paradise. It has a lot of vulnerabilities and a lot of weakness, not just in policies, but also socio-economics. Middle and poor classes in European countries suffer, unemployment among the young is increasing, drugs and crime are spreading and manipulation and expenses burden the people.
