After thirty-seven years of exile spent between Paris, London and Marbella in Spain, Rifaat el-Assad, in his turn, remakes the road to Damascus.
Bashar al-Assad's uncle, whom his father Hafez expelled in 1984 because he wanted to take power from him, returned to Syria last Thursday.
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The comeback of the one who had embarked on the revolution against Bashar shortly after 2011 comes a month after the confirmation by the French justice of his sentence to four years of imprisonment for having fraudulently constituted a heritage in France. estimated at 90 million euros.
The former Syrian vice-president was found guilty of organized money laundering and embezzlement of Syrian public funds between 1996 and 2016. All of his property in France and Spain was confiscated.
"Rifaat returned broke in Syria,"
says his lawyer, Élie Hatem.
"His return was made without negotiation with the Syrian authorities"
, declared to us from Damascus, Somar, one of his sons, returned with
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