The drugs were destroyed in a former bunker of Assad’s forces in the Damascus neighborhood of Kafr Sousa. Authorities say that by burning the drugs, they want to protect society and cut off smuggling routes used by the Assad family businesses.
New Syrian authorities burned a large batch of drugs on Wednesday, including a million captagon tablets, two security officials told AFP, writes TASR.
Captagon is a banned amphetamine-like stimulant that was mass-produced by the government of former President Bashar al-Assad. During the 13-year civil war in Syria, captagon became one of Syria’s biggest exports, writes AFP.
“We found a large amount of captagon, approximately one million tablets,” said a masked member of the security forces.
Drugs on fire
An AFP reporter witnessed security forces douse marijuana, the analgesic tramadol and about 50 bags of captagon tablets with combustibles and set them on fire.
The drugs were destroyed in a former bunker of Assad’s forces in the Damascus neighborhood of Kafr Sousa.
The reason for the destruction of the drugs was to “protect (from them) Syrian society” and “cut off the smuggling routes used by the Assad family businesses,” another masked member of the security forces added.
The new Islamist government has not yet published its stance on alcohol, which was widely available in the country during the Assad regime, writes AFP.
