CY says it will not tolerate ‘unforgivable’ threats

CYPRUS Airways yesterday rallied round its spokesman, Tassos Angelis, after he received a threatening phone call earlier in the week.

Not taking Wednesday’s death threat lightly, the company said yesterday it would not tolerate such “unforgivable” behaviour.

“The board and management of Cyprus Airways strongly condemns threats against the life of its press office director Tassos Angelis, for whom we express our complete support,” said yesterday’s CY statement.

A man pretending to be a Sigma television journalist told Angelis to keep his mouth shut or his family would suffer.

Soon after the chilling phone call, Angelis reported the incident to the police.

Angelis told the Cyprus Mailyesterday that there had been no repeat of the anonymous threats.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.