Residents of Paphos caught and handed over to the police a 29-year-old man suspected of breaking into a jewelry store and several other city establishments.

The day before the police received a phone call in the afternoon with a request to send a squad to the specified address. The caller reported that the townspeople themselves had detained a suspicious subject who was trying to sell jewelry and watches to passersby.

Upon arrival, the police saw first a bag full of unsold goods, which, according to witnesses, belonged to the detainee – and then the detainee himself. He was carrying another bag with burglary tools, gloves, a knife, and 290 euros in cash.
The man was unable to explain clearly where he was getting all this stuff and why he needed it legally, and the police took him first to the police station and then guarded him to the hospital: he had suffered facial injuries as the townspeople chased him down and detained him.

When the man’s identity was established, it turned out that this was not the first time he had come under police scrutiny. Part of the jewelry from the bag was recognized as his property by the owner of the recently robbed jewelry store – from there a few days earlier disappeared jewelry totaling about 15000 euros.

Police are checking to see what other crimes the detainee was involved in.