Police investigate assault on delivery driver in Limassol
Police are investigating an assault on a delivery driver in Limassol on Friday after footage circulated online, although no official report had been filed.
Limassol, Cyprus. A delivery driver was physically assaulted in Limassol on Friday, with police investigating after footage of the confrontation circulated on social media.
Police investigation
The incident reportedly occurred at around 5.45pm while several vehicles were queuing at a traffic light on Spyrou Kyprianou road.
“No official report has been filed with the police as of now, but police are investigating the case,” police told the Cyprus Mail.
Confrontation captured on video
The footage shows the delivery driver picking up his bicycle and delivery equipment from the road as a black BMW X3 stops beside him.
As the vehicle’s doors open, another man approaches the delivery driver and punches him in the head.
The BMW driver then gets out, and the incident escalates into a physical confrontation involving all three men, with the delivery driver caught between the other two. The footage shows the delivery driver being kicked and pushed by at least one of the men.
Eyewitness account
The video was initially published by the Facebook page RoadReport.cy, which cited an alleged eyewitness as saying the confrontation began when one of the BMW’s occupants pulled the delivery driver from his bicycle.
“One of them reached out of the window, grabbed the courier by his delivery bag and pulled him to the ground. They then got out of the car and started hitting him,” the eyewitness was quoted as saying.
According to the witness, the men later left the scene in the BMW.
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