Syrians stroll through Assad's palaces, take furniture and ornaments

Video obtained by Reuters showed of us entering the Al-Rawda Presidential Palace, as children ran thru the huge rooms and men slid a smartly-organized trunk across the ornate ground

Reuters

08 December, 2024, 08:45 pm

Closing modified: 08 December, 2024, 09:44 pm

Groups of Syrians strolled thru the palaces of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday following his ouster, wandering from room to room, posing for photos, and with some taking objects of furniture or adorns.

Video obtained by Reuters showed of us entering the Al-Rawda Presidential Palace, as children ran thru the huge rooms and men slid a smartly-organized trunk across the ornate ground.

Several men carried trim chairs over their shoulders. In a storeroom, cupboards had been ransacked and objects strewn across the bottom.

Video of yet one more palace, the Muhajreen Palace, verified by Reuters, showed groups of girls and men folks strolling across a white marble ground and thru gigantic wooden doorways. A man carried a vase in his hand, and a smartly-organized cupboard stood empty with its doorways ajar.

Syrian rebels seized comprise an eye on of Damascus on Sunday, forcing Assad to hover and ending his family’s decades of rule after bigger than 13 years of civil war in a seismic moment for the Heart East.

Assad, who had now not spoken in public since the surprising get up come a week within the past, flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination earlier on Sunday, two senior navy officers told Reuters, as rebels said that they had entered the capital with out a designate of navy deployments.