Nicosia menaced by gangs - Cyprus Mail

Nicosia menaced by gangs - Cyprus Mail: "ORGANISED GANGS of youths dressed in black, terrorised residents of a well-heeled Nicosia neighbourhood on Friday night in four separate incidents of assault and attempted mugging resulting in three victims being taken to hospital.
The four attacks occurred between the hours of 9pm and 10.30pm in the area near the Hilton Hotel in the capital.
Nicosia district police chief Kypros Michaelides yesterday spoke of “organised attacks”, noting that the phenomenon of “juvenile delinquency” greatly concerned the police.
According to police information, “it seems that around 30 people are involved, who are active in this specific area,” he said.
The first incident occurred at 9pm as a young man from Bangladesh walked down Kalypsous Street. He was approached by a group of young people who asked him for a cigarette. When he replied that he had none, they beat him on the head and other parts of the body, before leaving the scene, without taking anything from him. He was taken to Nicosia general hospital’s emergency ward where he received stitches.
The second incident “involved an attack on a young woman, who was also walking in the same area, by three to four people, who in all cases were wearing the same type of clothing, black clothes, scarves and hoods,” said Michaelides.
The 29-year-old Greek Cypriot doctor from Strovolos was walking on Edessis Street at around 10.15pm when three youths tried unsuccessfully to snatch her bag from her. Failing to do so, they hit her on the head with a baton.
“After hitting this woman with a bat, they left her at the scene without taking anything from her,” said the Nicosia police head."