Limassol police investigating kiosk robbery
Police in Limassol are investigating a kiosk robbery case on Wednesday.
The perpetrator is said to be a 27-year-old man, against whom an arrest warrant is pending.
According to the police, the robbery was committed overnight at 11.35pm and the complainant reported that the perpetrator was a young man, naked from the waist up, who entered a kiosk and began grabbing products from the shelves, some of which he put down his trousers.
The employee locked the door in an attempt to prevent the thief from leaving, when the man allegedly assaulted the employee with a plastic rod. The thief then managed to unlock the door and escape, grabbing three cartons of cigarettes from a shelf next to the cash register on his way out.
Officers arrived at the scene and during their investigation secured the testimony against the 27-year-old man.