Protecting Our Homes, Restoring Our Rights: Cyprus Property Occupation Must Stop

Over the past eighteen months, both myself and other British and foreign national property owners that I am in touch with and communcate with regularly, have all confessed that we as a group of overseas investors into Cyprus real estate, have all been forcefully ousted from our properties by the presence of refugees. We own properties in the attached newspaper clip (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3003199/Video-Former-three-star-Cyprus-resort-400-migrants-lived-squalor.html). Several of properties that have been affected have been completely vandalised, we have video evidence from a number of owners who visited their residential developments last year. Local newspaper reports have disclosed constant riots, outbreak of fires etc. (https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/riot-police-move-in-after-chloraka-brawl) Despite owning legitimate properties, we have had our properties broken into, and those residential developments now a home to hundreds of refugees. Some refugees have confessed to us, our property managers and the police that the property developer put them there. The illegal break-ins and theft of our belongings happened during the Covid 19 pandemic when we could not travel due to high infection rates and deaths. This activity is still continuing.There are presently refugees living in our properties without our consent. The affected residential developments have transformed into very dangerous ghettos, declared unfit for human habitation and dangerous.