In his flight, Bashar al-Assad left behind millions of damning documents
The ex-dictator's methods are highlighted by tons of documents that weren't burned in the fall of the regime.
Mamdouh, a rebel who fought in the Syrian town of Soueida on December 8, 2024, recounts: “The regime put up a lot of resistance to us here,” he recalls. "They fought for at least six hours.” He points to a building that used to house military intelligence. Inside, the floors are littered with administrative documents. Accompanied by other rebels, who have come to scrutinize every discovery, Mamdouh grabs a register. “These are the names of all those who had a card given to them by the regime, which allowed them to pass through all the military checkpoints without being questioned. There are only civilian names,” he declares. In reality, as Franceinfo reports, they're the names of dozens of informers. Official communications, phone taps, investigation files... you'll have to be patient to get to the bottom of all these documents.
In Soueida alone, millions of intelligence documents, some dating back to the 1960s, remain intact. In other buildings, the archives have been burnt down by the regime in an attempt to destroy the evidence.
(MH with Manon Pierre - Source: France info - Picture: picture alliance/dpa/MAXPPP | Chris Huby / Le Pictorium)