Flash villas, cars and drugs: Assad's legacy in Latakia
2024-12-16 15:00:02 - From: Al monitor
The drive winds between manicured lavender-lined lawns to a crescent-shaped home with a gleaming swimming pool on the Syrian coast: Bashar al-Assad's holiday hideaway disgusts those who now come here.
"To think that he spent all that money and we lived in misery," spat Mudar Ghanem, 26.
He is grey-skinned and his eyes are sunken after spending 36 days in a Damascus jail, accused like other suspected dissidents of "terrorism" against the ousted president's rule.
