“I am a collateral loss”: MP on her mother’s 1993 murder after femicide debate

Direct Democracy MP Diana Constantinide has revealed that she lost her mother in a murder case in 1993, speaking amid a reignited debate over femicide following an attempted murder in Limassol in which a police officer shot his wife before taking his own life.

Constantinide said she considers herself one of the “collateral losses” of a murder. “I am one such collateral loss. In 1993 I lost my mother, in a murder case. I have lived, and continue to live, the collateral loss part of it, even...