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Cyprus Killer Exposes Bias Against Female Domestic Workers

Marissa Melton

   A Greek Cypriot army captain who has confessed to killing five women
   and two girls in Cyprus, all immigrants, is expected to appear in court
   next week to be charged with murder, kidnapping, rape and obstruction
   of justice, among other charges.

   The man known as Cyprus' first serial killer has highlighted the
   vulnerability of immigrant women to violent crimes in their adopted
   countries.

   The chief of police has been fired and the justice minister has
   resigned over criticism that police did not respond more aggressively
   to the first hints that immigrant women were being victimized.

   The bodies of six of the suspect's alleged victims have been found
   submerged in lakes. The body of the first victim, a woman from the
   Philippines who disappeared with her daughter in 2016, was found in
   mid-April in a lake known as the "Red Lake" near the mining village
   ofMitsero. Drainage from the mines has contaminated the water with a
   high acid content and a murky red color.

   The latest discovery of a body occurred June 4 in the same lake. This
   body, also believed to be that of a woman from the Philippines, was
   found stuffed into a suitcase that was resting on the bottom of the
   lake.

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