Our View: Heavy-handed police hotel raid is overkill

It defies belief that more than two dozen police officers raided a hotel in Paphos to check for workers employed illegally. Such a large number of police officers would not have been sent to the scene of a serious crime, yet in the Cyprus of today, illegal workers seem to be regarded as a bigger threat to law and order than criminals.

Hotel guests witnessing this heavy-handedness would have thought they were holidaying in a police state or a tin-pot dictatorship even if the police did not bother them.