A Cretan couple and one of their relatives were in police detention yesterday after allegedly hosting a private party at which some 4,000 gunshots are believed to have been fired, without provoking any injuries.

Police were called to the couple’s Hania home on Wednesday night after receiving complaints from neighbors. On arrival, officers said they saw people throwing used cartridges into the neighboring garden. Hundreds more spent cartridges were found on the premises. A subsequent search of the suspects’ home unearthed several weapons including an airgun and bullets for a Kalashnikov assault rifle. The suspects are to have their weapons’ licenses revoked and may face other charges, police said.

“We must not forget that randomly firing shotguns in the air puts our fellow citizens at risk,” the director of the Hania police unit, Artemis Koutsaftakis, remarked.