Two held for Limassol icon thefts

TWO MEN were remanded in custody for eight days yesterday on suspicion of stealing icons.

Antonis Iosif Parpour, 75, and Giorgos Petrou Kaplanis, 20, were arrested after police found 32 icons in Parpour’s home after a tipoff.

In his statement Parpour apparently admitted that the icons were stolen, naming Kaplanis as his supplier. Kaplanis later admitted to stealing the icons from three Limassol churches, police said.

Limassol police are still searching for a third man in connection with the case.

Police are meanwhile continuing their investigations into two other icon thefts, one from a church in an uninhabited village near Paphos, and the other from a church in Peristerona in the Nicosia district.

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