Second man held over Ayia Napa bombs

A SECOND man has been remanded on suspicion of involvement in two bomb attacks in Ayia Napa in February last year.

Thirty-year-old Dimitris Dimitriou from Larnaca, known as Jimmy, was named as an accomplice by his business partner Georgios Mavrou, who has already admitted to the attacks, Famagusta District court heard yesterday.

Dimitriou was remanded for eight days and joined Mavrou in police custody.

Twenty-five-year-old Mavrou, known as Hadjoui, has admitted to planting home-made bombs at the Ayia Napa primary school on February 21 and the resort’s post office a week later, police say. No one was hurt by the bombs, the second of which was defused before it went off.

Mavrou, who owns a pub in Ayia Napa with Dimitriou, admitted to the attacks after being arrested last week on suspicion of theft. The court heard yesterday that Mavrou had told police he planned the bomb attacks with his business partner in an attempt to get police “off their back.”

Mavrou would make and plant the bombs while Dimitriou would make warning phone-calls to a private TV station to warn the devices had been planted and tell police to stop hassling a certain person, the court heard.

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