The mother of a murdered Filipina is awaiting justice in Cyprus for last over four years.
Maricar Valdez Arquiola’s mother is waiting for the Cypriot government to act in the matter.
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A Cypriot member of parliament recently received a letter from the mother of Maricar Valdez Arquiola, a domestic worker from the Philippines who was murdered in 2017 and her body was discovered inside a suitcase thrown in a lake in rural Nicosia two years later.
“For the last five years my grandson, seven years old, lives in the Philippines in economic hardship due to the loss of his mother, who was supporting him financially when she was alive,” read the letter according to Philenews.
Maricar’s family has filed a lawsuit against the attorney general’s office seeking damages to the tune of €500,000, accusing the state of failing to act after the 30-year-old woman was reported missing, but the government does not wish to go to trial.
The lawsuit also cites a self-confessed serial murderer, army commander Nicos Metaxas, also known as Orestis, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Maricar and other women and children.
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Earlier, the Republic of Cyprus compensated each victim’s family €17,000 after officials, including President Nicos Anastasiades, issued a public apology and a minister and police head resigned over the affair.
However, legal battles continued since the money granted by Cyprus was deemed insufficient to meet the financial demands of families whose financial needs was aggravated by the death of their breadwinners overseas.
The government, according to Knews in Cyprus, does not want to go to trial, with the Legal Department apparently preferring to settle out of court but postponing any decision on final payments in order to review all claims from family of the serial killer’s victims.
