Times are tough for the al-Assad family, which doesn’t exactly arouse empathy given the horrors committed by the regime. More than a month after the fall of the Syrian dictator, the couple who took refuge in Moscow are said to be in a very complicated situation due to the serious illness of Bashar al-Assad’s wife.
Suffering from leukemia, Asma al-Assad is said to be between life and death. According to The Telegraphdoctors give him a 50% chance of survival in the short term. “Asma al-Assad is dying,” a relative reportedly confided to our British colleagues. Her father, a renowned cardiologist in London, would also be on site in Russia to assist his daughter, whose state of health is so deteriorated that she could not be in the same room as another person. In 2019, she had already had to fight breast cancer, but she had overcome the disease. Last May, the Syrian presidency announced that she was suffering from leukemia.
The 49-year-old businesswoman, born in the English capital, would welcome a transfer to her country of birth, of which she has nationality. But the British authorities do not see it that way, London having indicated that everything would be put in place to ensure that no member of the Assad family takes refuge on English soil.
In addition to this ordeal, which could prove fatal, Asma al-Assad would no longer have any reason to stay in Russia alongside her husband, from whom she wishes to divorce. Married since 2000 to Bashar al-Assad, who had no planned political destiny until the death of his brother, she embodied Syrian modernity for many years, participating, in fact, in the normalization of the regime at the level international.
After the launch of the civil war and the massacres ordered by her husband, the situation completely changed, the first lady becoming, like the rest of her family, persona non grata for a large part of the international community.
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