If she has dual British and Syrian nationality. Asmal al-Assad, the former First Lady of Syria, is still the target of investigations in the United Kingdom.
His exile in London seems compromised. According to Russian state news agencies, Asma al-Assad, 49, fled Syria with her husband Bashar El-Assad to find refuge in Moscow with their Russian ally, even though the Kremlin refused to confirm the presence of the couple and their three adult children. Born in London in 1975, to a father who was a Syrian immigrant cardiologist and a mother who was a secretary at the Syrian embassy, Asmal al-Assad, whose older sister was the wife of Hafez al-'s interior minister. Assad, was educated in the United Kingdom.
Suffering from leukemia
Educated at the prestigious private school Queen's College, with a degree in computer science and French literature at King's College in London, Asma al-Assad has been attending Bachar al-Assad since the end of the 1990s. They married a few months after he succeeded him. his father at the head of the country in July 2000. The couple has three children, two boys and a girl. The eldest recently graduated from Moscow University with a degree in mathematics. Last May, the Syrian presidency announced that Asma al-Assad was suffering from leukemia, after having already been treated between 2018 and 2019 for breast cancer.
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In the interview the couple gave us in 2010, Asma al-Assad, who had the first name Emma in her primary school, explained that she felt “still Syrian”. “I lived in London for twenty-five years. So I was lucky enough to be exposed to both cultures and in particular a lot of experiences that British culture had to offer me. […] The only difference is that in England I was single, while in Syria I was married. »
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One of the most famous profiteers of the war in Syria
Mike Pompeo
Since March 2012, Asma al-Assad has had her English assets frozen as part of European sanctions, maintained by London after Brexit. A measure motivated by the fact that it “takes advantage of the Syrian regime, with which it is associated”. But she has a British passport and is not inadmissible. Questioned Monday evening before the House of Commons, the head of British diplomacy David Lammy was however categorical. Accused of having enriched herself thanks to the Syria Trust for Development, a charitable organization that she founded and which centralizes most of the financing from abroad, she who worked in an investment bank. For Mike Pompeo, American Secretary of State, she is “one of the most famous profiteers of the war in Syria”.
