Legal Service ‘Will Not File Criminal Charges’ over Conscript Thanasis’ Death

Cyprus' Attorney General rejects criminal charges in Thanasis Nicolaou case

Cyprus’ Attorney General, Giorgos Savvides, has rejected calls from the family of Thanasis Nicolaou for criminal charges to be filed in connection with his death, citing a lack of sufficient evidence. Nicolaou, a 26-year-old architect who returned to Cyprus from Australia to complete his national service, was found dead under the Alassa bridge in Limassol in September 2005. Initially ruled a suicide, a 2020 exhumation and forensic reanalysis con…

Legal service ‘will not file criminal charges’ over conscript Thanasis’ death

The legal service on Thursday decided not to file any criminal charges over the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, his mother Andriana Nicolaou said. “Provocatively, for 20 years, they have protected those who covered up the crime instead of bringing them to justice,” she told…