The shelters that don’t exist: how Cyprus dismantled its civil defence programme and never fixed it

Google Maps directs Cypriots to a civil defence shelter that turns out to be agricultural land with no building on it. That image, captured in a new Audit Office memorandum, encapsulates the state of a shelter programme that was quietly dismantled in 2013 to help speed up property development licensing — and never properly rebuilt. […]

By Vassos Vassiliou