Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, captagon factories and storage warehouses have been discovered on sites of the fallen regime. Fighters from the Islamist group HTS promise to put an end to the trafficking of this synthetic drug, very popular in the Gulf.
With the fall of the Damascus regime, the Syrians are revealing the other side of the “Assad system”. These are the prisons and terrible detention conditionsbut it is also the scale of state trafficking, that of captagon.
Videos filmed and relayed since December 8 by rebel fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) show vast hangars and warehouses used to store captagon. In these images, thousands of small brown pills are hidden inside machines, hidden in copper coils or in fruit, undoubtedly with a view to being exported.
The videos also attest to the existence of laboratories in Syria used to produce captagon on an industrial scale. “At least two of them were identified in Douma, north of Damascus, and in Latakia, on the Syrian coast, analyzes Caroline Rose, traffic observer and director of the New Lines Institute, a research institute based in Washington. No doubt there are more.”
Captagon “produced at a systemic level”
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