Threats against President Nikos Christodoulides made on social media could have originated somewhere in the north , reports said on Tuesday.
President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed receiving a threat on Saturday evening but did not provide any details.

"I confirm the incident and have full confidence in the authorities of the Republic of Cyprus, nothing more," he said on Saturday evening when asked whether he had received threats.

When asked where the threats came from, he declined to provide details.

According to local media reports, the threat against the president is related to an arrest warrant issued in connection with Wing 10 of the Central Prison.

The message appears to have been sent on Friday morning and led to an investigation into a prison cell.

It is believed that the mobile phone used is not registered in the Republic and was not sent from prison.

The daily Phileleftheros said the threats were made via a social media platform that Christodoulides himself uses.

Police have not released details of the ongoing investigation, but the same newspaper reported, citing sources, that technical checks had shown that the sender of the threatening message used an internet provider in the north.

This makes it possible to rule out that the message was sent from an IP address in an area controlled by the Republic of Cyprus or from abroad, the newspaper added.

In addition, the signal sent by the provider allegedly does not cover the central prisons - so it is not possible that the message was written and sent from there.

As for a mobile phone found in Wing 10A of the Central Prison, investigations by police and prison authorities revealed that the device had no connection with the incident.

Authorities are continuing to examine a notebook found in the possession of an inmate to determine whether it has any connection to the case.

As previously reported, the threats appear to be related to an ongoing court case: the trial of Turkish-Jewish real estate developer Simon Aykut, who was arrested in early June and charged with usurping Greek Cypriot property in northern Cyprus.

Aykut's lawyer said her client's cell had been searched and she had officially requested information.

In addition, according to Phileleftheros , no mobile phone was located in the cells of the central prison that could have established a connection to a provider in the north of the island.

The incident appears to have occurred or become known last Friday.

On Saturday, Christodoulides confirmed that he had received a threat but did not provide details, saying only that he had "full confidence" in the authorities to solve the case.

Source: CyprusMail.com

Author: Elias Hazou

Elias Hazou is a senior reporter for the Cyprus Mail, specialising in energy, politics and parliamentary machinations.