Relics found

POLICE ARE searching for a couple from Greece after church relics of great historical value were found in their Limassol apartment.

According to Limassol CID, police received information that antiquities were being kept in a rented flat on the outskirts of the town.

“A search warrant was secured and in the presence of the apartment’s owner but also the community leader, and while the tenants were absent abroad, the specific apartment was searched and a church shrine was found,” a spokesman said. Ecclesiastical experts have been called in to determine where the wooden shrine, believed to date back to the 18th century, was stolen from and its exact historical value.

The police have issued an arrest warrant for the two tenants.

 

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