It started with a photo taken by a German tourist in 2017. The picture showed the so-called Red lake, an abandoned mine in Cyprus. In the water, bobbing something that looked like a large suitcase.
On Sunday the police took up the suitcase, which proved to contain the remains of a dead woman and a cement blocks.
During the Monday were looking divers on after even a bag believed to contain the remains after yet another dead woman and her children.
a 35-year-old army captain has confessed that he murdered seven people, five women and two children. The man has met with their victims – in most cases, migrant workers from the Philippines and other asian countries – via a dejtingapp. He has also visited places where asian women meet and purported to look after the cleaning lady.
on Saturday interrogated the suspected serial killer by the court in Nicosia. He then handed in a handwritten confession, in which he gave details surrounding the murders of seven people, five women and two children.
the female migrant workers, who work under often difficult conditions of maids and cleaning ladies. The murder has put the focus on their working conditions, and on Saturday demonstrated hundreds of cypriots outside of the presidentpalatsen in Nicosia.
President Nikos Anastasiades appeared on Saturday and said that he shared the people sickened in the face of the crimes.
“the Murderer seems to have deliberately sought out foreign women who come here to work,” he said.
asian guest workers have disappeared in the last few years. The authorities have, in most cases, have assumed that they have traveled to their home countries or to the Turkish cypriot part of Cyprus.
But police sources said the local media that at least 23 other women may have been murdered by the suspect 35-year-old.
