In the port city of Latakia, Syria’s new Muslim rulers discovered a warehouse full of children’s toys – at least at first glance: bobby cars and plastic tricycles contained countless Captagon pills, Syria’s main export under Bashar al-Assad.
“We explored this area of warehouses near the port of Latakia. We also seized this warehouse, which belonged to the Fourth Division of Maher al-Assad’s army. There we found a huge quantity of Captagon and numerous other drugs,” the news agency quoted a security guard named Abu Rajan (see video above).
Syria is the largest drug state in the world under Assad
Maher al-Assad is the brother of deposed ruler Bashar al-Assad. The trade in the amphetamine-like Captagon had turned Syria into the largest drug state in the world. Captagon was produced, among other things, in the drug kitchens of the Assad regime to help the dictator and his clan acquire even more wealth: the pills are something like the ‘cocaine of the poor’, the jihadist drug of the terrorist militia Hamas.
“The medicines were prepared and packaged here in the warehouse. The Captagon was then taken to other countries via the port,” he explains. According to him, about 50 to 60 million Captagon pills have been seized from the Fourth Division. “This is the largest camp of its kind in the area.”
The largest customer is Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is the largest market in the Middle East. There, Captagon is the party drug of the wealthy elite and much less taboo than alcohol. But even simple workers use it to get excited and cope with the hellish pace of work.
Captagon was originally prescribed as a medicine against narcolepsy (popularly known as sleeping sickness, note) and attention disorders.
Source: Krone
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