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Reports today of a waterspout off the coast near Esentepe. That’s about forty-five kilometres east of us on the other side of Girne. Hadn’t been familiar with waterspouts, but essentially they’re a rotating column of water and spray formed by a whirlwind over the sea. Can move inland as tornadoes.
Meanwhile in the not so peaceful South there are news of a gunfight in the centre of Larnaca, a city in which we spent many winters. Reports of a lockdown in the city centre (a bit vague as a location description from the point of view of someone who has lived in various Larnaca “city centre” spots). Apparently people treated for injuries and blood observed but no one as yet apprehended. Undoubtedly more info yet to come.
Gunfights unusual in the Republic of Cyprus. Murder not so much. Just remembering a contract killing in 2010. A woman was charged with hiring hitmen to kill her former boss, who had sacked her from her job as a television presenter at Sigma TV. As we thought at the time, hard to know which was more astonishing - that she should have wished to hire contract killers over being fired or that she had the money and contacts to do so.
Occurs to me that we were not in Cyprus at the time of the trial so check the records. And yes, justice appears to have taken its time but in June of 2023 Eleni Skordelli as well as her brother and two others (presumably the hitmen) were sentenced to life imprisonment for the conspiracy to kill and the murder of Andis Hadjicostis, creator and CEO of Sigma Television.
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