The narcotics seized and produced during the regime of Bashar al-Assad became a fuel for the fire.
Syria’s new authorities burned large quantities of narcotics today, including one million pills of captagon, an amphetamine produced on an industrial scale under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, two members of the security forces told AFP.
In Damascus, in the courtyard of the building that housed the headquarters of the security services of the former administration, the forces of the new authorities poured gasoline and then burned stocks cannabisboxes Tramadol and about 50 small bags containing pills Captagonaccording to an AFP cameraman.
Syria’s new authorities burned a large drug stockpile, including one million captagon pills, previously produced on an industrial scale under ousted president Bashar al-Assad.
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“We found a large amount of Captagon, about a million pills,” a member of those forces, who identified himself as Osama, told AFP, his face covered and wearing the uniform of the “Public Security Administration”.
Bashar al-Assad’s administration was known for producing Captagon, for one amphetamine that comes from a drug that is supposed to treat it narcolepsy or them attention deficit disordersturning the country into narco-state and flooding the markets of the Middle East, neighboring Iraq or Gulf countries.
In recent days, in aircraft hangars or military bases, the coalition of Islamist armed organizations has discovered hundreds of small bags containing Captagon pills.
Today, the destruction of drugs took place in the former “security sector” of Damascus, in the district of Kafar Sousse.
“Security forces of the new government of Syria discovered a warehouse of drugs during inspections” of the security sector, another member of those forces, who introduced himself as Hamza, told AFP.
The destruction of stocks—“alcohol, cannabis, captagon pills and packets of hashish” was done to “protect Syrian society” and “cut the smuggling routes used by the Assad family businesses”he clarified, referring to the former regime’s industrial-scale drug trade.
“This is not the first initiative of this kind, the security forces have also found other warehouses (…) and drug manufacturing sites and destroyed them”, noted.
An AFP investigation revealed that Captagon had turned Syria into a narco-state with an illegal industry of more than $10 billion.
Source :Skai
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