CY spokesman gets anonymous death threat

By Jean Christou

AN ANONYMOUS caller yesterday posed as a Sigma journalist to send a chilling threat to unsuspecting Cyprus Airways (CY) spokesman Tassos Angelis.

Family man Angelis told the Cyprus Mailthe caller had passed himself off as a journalist called Stavros Stavrou from Sigma TV in order to convince a secretary to put him through.

The call came in at around 11.30am.

“He said he was a journalist just so that he could talk to me,” Angelis said, adding that he could not call to mind any journalist of that name.

According to the airline spokesman, the caller said: “Listen carefully. You talk to much. Be careful of what you say because you have a family and it would be a pity.”

“I asked who was speaking but he hung up,” Angelis said. “I consider this a serious threat to me and my family.”

Angelis said he reported the incident to the police, who advised him of what precautions to take. “I told them that I don’t have any differences with anyone,” he said. “But this person or persons who have made a threat on my life obviously have a grievance against me.”

Angelis said this was the first time as airline spokesman that he has received such a direct threat, although he had been threatened indirectly in the past. “It is obvious that it is someone who doesn’t like what I say as a spokesman,” he said.