Cyprus is in a state of shock, because “the first serial killer ever” on the island is a fact. A Greek commander of the Cypriot National Guard has announced that he is seven women and girls have been murdered, as possible he has even more victims. There is also a lot of anger. How is it possible that the police are not in action came when the women went missing were? How could the murderous military just run its course?

The sinister truth of a serial killer in the otherwise fairly non-violent Cyprus came this month to light with the discovery of the bodies of two women. The 38-year-old Marry Rose Tiburcio and the 28-year-old Arian Palanos Lozano, originally from the Philippines, were since last may and August last year, went missing. Their bodies were found, buried in the shafts of an abandoned ertsmijn.