Cyprus has been hit by what are described as pure “programs” during September. Large anti-immigration mobs have gone around and attacked businesses owned by immigrants from the third world.
Anger against immigration boils over in Cyprus – where last year it received the largest number of asylum seekers per capita in the entire EU.
Disaffected Cypriots have begun to take the law into their own hands. Earlier in September, a large group protested the demographic changes in the second largest city of Limassol, under the slogan “Cyprus is Greek”.
Hundreds of masked men with Cypriot flags and armed with Molotov cocktails attacked immigrant-owned shops and restaurants. Individual immigrants were also attacked and beaten.
Egyptian restaurateur Mohammed el-Basaraty, 38, tells AFP how it happened when his restaurant was attacked.
– I was standing with a neighbor and she told me to leave, “because if they see you, a foreigner, they will beat you”, he says.
He then hid in the back of the restaurant while the men smashed the windows.
– We started to hear the sound of glass breaking. After that I smelled smoke and fire, says Mohammed el-Basaraty.
A few days earlier, a similar riot took place in Paphos in southwestern Cyprus. In recent years, the city has been marked by a conflict between the local population and hundreds of Syrians who occupy an apartment complex. They are accused, among other things, of stealing electricity.
In videos circulating on social media, Paphos residents equipped with sticks and crowbars are seen marching in the streets chanting:
– Out! Out!
In connection with the riots in Paphos, 21 people were arrested, including 12 Syrians.
Before the events in Limassol, the police were prepared and had a heavy presence. However, it is accused of not having intervened enough.
– They were more than 600 people. How many did the police arrest? Only 13? says Adel Hassan in Limassol to AFP.
Cypriot political scientist Giorgos Charalambous describes the events as “pogroms”.
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