Police officers walked into the offices of the Reporter Cyprus website on Wednesday morning and seized medical documents that purport to show suspended Paphos mayor Phedon Phedonos’s wife was treated for injuries at a Nicosia hospital in 2017 — a move that signals the domestic violence investigation against him has been reopened.
According to sources, officers from the Nicosia Criminal Investigation Department (CID) collected the documents under a court order at around 11am. Cyprus Police confirmed the operation to philenews. Police communications officer Marina Christodoulidou said: “Instructions were given for the collection of the documents, which will be evaluated.”
reporter published the documents on Tuesday, saying they had been passed to the outlet in the public interest. They purport to show that Phedonos’s wife — named in the documents as Louiza Andreou — attended the Accident and Emergency Department of Nicosia General Hospital on 13 March 2017 at 19:15.
One document carries a handwritten note in the “main symptom” field reading “beating by husband.” A second shows she underwent a radiological examination. A third bears a handwritten entry under “diagnosis” reading “reported beating,” with the addition of “cranial, cervical, femoral injury.”
According to the documents, triage took place at 19:18 — three minutes after her recorded arrival — and she entered the A&E ward at 21:59. Electronic records also indicate she visited the orthopaedic department on 17 March 2017 and again on 30 May 2017, roughly two and a half months after the initial incident.
A further document obtained by philenews is an alleged letter of complaint making various allegations against the suspended mayor, including domestic violence against his wife. The letter carries no date and purports to have been sent to former President Nikos Anastasiades, the Speaker of Parliament, the Attorney General, the Chief of Police, and party leaders.
Previously, police said the case would not proceed to court following an ex officio investigation, citing insufficient evidence. A file had been compiled and assessed by the Law Office. The current investigation is the second into the matter — at least seven years after the first. philenews reported on 27 January that the burden of resolving the allegations rested with Cyprus Police, following confirmation of the ex officio investigation by police press office officer Christodoulos Konsolos.
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