We have seen plenty of the Assads’ palace, however in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus we discovered their household house, the place they really lived.

What we found inside was staggering. This was clearly the place the dictator’s British-born spouse Asma beloved to be, her internal sanctum the place she saved her treasures.

The looters had received there first, the place was ransacked, however in Asma’s private storage room and boudoir, the ground was lined with numerous bins for jewelry, antiques and designer items.

However what we noticed revealed the lifetime of luxurious she and her household led whereas her husband was orchestrating the homicide of a whole lot of hundreds of his individuals, who had been dwelling in abject poverty.

On the decrease flooring, envelopes of damning paperwork. Amongst them financial institution data in Asma’s maiden identify, for staggering sums of cash, half one million euros and 22.5 million {dollars}.

In interviews, the primary girl of Syria insisted the Assads lived a center class life. Few had been fooled, however the extent of that fraud is changing into clear.

The Assads had clearly fled in a rush. On this, the Assads’ household house, we discovered the place Asma saved her cherished mementoes of household life – all of them left behind.

There have been presents her youngsters had made for her at college, household pictures of the Assads on vacation, underwater images of the tyrant of Damascus swimming and windsurfing.

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On one shelf we discovered the pictures of the day Asma and Bashar received married. She seems to be adoringly into his eyes. He had introduced her to Damascus from her life in London to a brand new one in Syria.

A life that will deliver her untold wealth fortune and energy however in the end see her pressured to flee the nation in shame.

The query for Syrians will likely be, what occurred to all her and her husband’s thousands and thousands?