Oroklini incident ‘taken as a racist attack’, House committee hears

Saturday’s attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini which turned violent and ended with a 27-year-old man requiring a craniectomy was “taken as a racist attack”, a United Nations high commission for refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson told the House interior committee on Thursday.

The spokesperson said the UNHCR has been concerned about the living standards in the block of flats, “with no electricity, running water, or waste collection”...