{"id":104519,"date":"2024-12-16T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/syrias-ex-president-denies-having-planned-the-escape-to-moscow-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T17:08:08","slug":"syrias-ex-president-denies-having-planned-the-escape-to-moscow-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/syrias-ex-president-denies-having-planned-the-escape-to-moscow-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria’s ex-president denies having planned the escape to Moscow – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since taking power, Syria’s rebels, and the country’s de facto new leaders, have been busy announcing their political positions and plans going forward. But from the overthrown regime and ex-president Bashar al-Assad, it has been silent. Until now. – At no point did I consider leaving or seeking refuge. Such a proposal was never proposed by anyone else. The only thing we could do was to continue fighting the terrorists, says a statement that is supposed to be from Assad. It was shared on the Telegram channel of the ousted regime’s presidential office on Monday. It is dated December 16 and Moscow. Assad claims that the reason the statement has been delayed was that communication in Syria was down in connection with the rebel attack. This despite the fact that it was already known one week ago that Assad had fled to Moscow and been granted asylum by President Vladimir Putin. Bashar al-Assad (left) visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in July. Photo: VALERY SHARIFULIN \/ AFP Assad: Was asked to evacuate In the statement, Assad gives his version of what allegedly happened on Sunday 8 December. It was then that the rebels took the Syrian capital Damascus and the end of the Assad regime was a fact. – The departure from Syria was not planned. Nor did it happen during the last hours of the fighting, as some have claimed, says Assad. He claims he went from Damascus to the Russian Hmeimim air base near the coastal city of Latakia in northwest Syria. There he was while the Syrian army was losing its battles against the rebels. Assad says that in the evening Russian authorities told him to evacuate. Russian military vehicles with the Russian flag near the Hmeimim airbase on December 16. Photo: Leo Correa \/ AP The ex-president further claims that he would never leave the Syrian people, that he has never tried to enrich himself, and that he still feels “belonging to Syria and the people”. This is in sharp contrast to the criticism of the regime. Luxury and cash After the fall of the regime, depictions and evidence of the Assad regime’s brutality have shaken the world. Syrians have told of extensive and brutal repression, torture and persecution. The overthrow of the regime also revealed the luxury life of the ex-president and his wife Asma, who lived in London. news’s \u200b\u200bMiddle East correspondent Yama Wolasmal gained access to one of the Assad family’s famous palaces after the regime fell. Recently, the Financial Times revealed that Assad flew huge amounts of cash from Syria to Moscow in 2018 and 2019. The newspaper refers to documentation of Russian foreign trade. In total, it is almost two tonnes of dollar and euro banknotes with a value of around 250 million dollars, almost 2.8 billion kroner. Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma visited Paris in December 2010, one year before the civil war in Syria broke out. Photo: MIGUEL MEDINA \/ AFP In recent years, Assad’s extended family has spent 40 million dollars, around NOK 450 million, to buy 20 luxury apartments in Moscow, according to the newspaper. The US Foreign Ministry estimated in 2022 that the entire Assad family is worth 1\u20132 billion dollars, around NOK 10\u201320 billion. However, the report emphasizes that it is difficult to confirm the figure, because values \u200b\u200bare probably “hidden in various accounts, in property, companies and tax havens”. Interested in abroad? Listen to the foreign affairs editor’s podcast: Published 16.12.2024, at 17.59
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