Flowers, plants and other items being stolen from graves

THE Constantinos and Eleni cemetery in Nicosia has recently been subject to a number of thefts, an employee revealed yesterday.

According to the employee the thieves have been taking anything and everything, from flowers and plants as well as buckets and sweeping brushes, apparently “leaving nothing.” These objects are worthless but of sentimental value to relatives of the deceased.

These relatives have begun leaving written notes telling the thieves not to steal from gravestones as ‘God is watching them and will punish them for it’. They are also calling upon the church authorities to take action so that the thieves are arrested.

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