SYRIA’S exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad has been accused of being obsessive about intercourse and video video games throughout his despotic reign.
The tyrant – who oversaw the torture and homicide of tons of of 1000’s of his folks – was mentioned to have been glued to his telephone enjoying Sweet Crush whereas the Arab nation crumbled round him.
Dozens of insider sources instructed The Atlantic how Assad was extra involved with video video games and having intercourse with new ladies fairly than saving his collapsing regime.
The dictator was commonly introduced ladies, together with the wives of senior Syrian officers, procured by his media adviser and lover Luna al-Shibl, it has been claimed.
The previous Al Jazeera journalist was mysteriously discovered useless in her BMW on a freeway exterior of Damascus in July 2024.
Her automotive was barely broken however her cranium was smashed in.
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State media mentioned it was a site visitors accident however rumours instantly swirled that it might need been Assad himself that ordered her assassination.
Within the closing days of the tyrant’s rule, he was “arrogantly” reassuring aides and subordinates that victory was imminent and refused lifelines from neighbouring nations or offers from international ministers.
“He didn’t reply,” one supply mentioned.
“He gave the impression to be sulking, offended at the concept that he must surrender the presidency.”
The last word betrayal got here when he flew out of Syria a 12 months in the past as his nation rebelled in opposition to his rule.
He cowardly fled his folks on a Russian army airplane on the eleventh hour – as he confronted arrest and execution at dwelling.
The insiders mentioned that his high aides didn’t even consider the stories of his escape as a result of it was thought of “so cowardly and astonishing”.
Putin personally permitted Assad’s last-minute rescue, which may have used physique doubles and decoy helicopters.
Now, hypothesis is swirling over the place precisely the dictator and his household are hiding in Russia, after Putin gave asylum to the toppled tyrant, his prolonged household, and key henchmen on December 8 final 12 months.
The Syrian dictator’s household are identified to personal dozens of skyscraper complexes within the elite Moscow Metropolis enterprise and residential district, purchased with money siphoned out of Syria earlier than his fall.
Assad now lives “in luxurious” in a Moscow “warlord retirement village”, in keeping with one intelligence supply.
The supply suspects the Syrian dictator may very well be holed-up in one in every of a number of heavily-guarded Russian authorities compounds within the capital, protected by pal Putin.
One such compound, Vorobyovy Gory, is within the Sparrow Hills, near Russia’s Hollywood.
The supply mentioned: “That is the type of place the place Assad may very well be held completely safely guarded by the FSO [Federal Protection Service] and in luxurious.
“There are others exterior Moscow, however this one solely homes folks personally permitted by Putin they usually reside right here or get kicked out based mostly on his patronage.”
The Butcher now kills time enjoying countless video video games within the penthouse of a 99ft tower, stories say.
Dachas have been constructed right here for the Soviet elite and utilized by pleasant international dictators like Cuban ruler Fidel Castro and sure Assad’s personal father Hafez on his visits.
The Russian secret companies have been tasked with guarding the 60-year-old from threats to his life – together with from the brand new regime in Damascus, which has demanded his extradition.
Regardless that Moscow district is full of facial recognition cameras, a former KGB officer mentioned it was “too public” to correctly guard the dictator even when he additionally used a rumoured nation property.
Information outlet Agentsvo lately revealed tenants of the “secret village” embody Normal Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the armed forces normal workers.
Gerasimov moved right here simply earlier than the beginning of Russia’s battle with Ukraine, for which he’s the Kremlin’s high commander.
Former defence minister Sergei Shoigu, now secretary of the highly effective safety council and underneath menace of Ukrainian assassination, was put in right here on the identical time.
Oligarch and former Chelsea proprietor Roman Abramovich additionally has a house within the space.
In October, Assad – who’s married to London-born spouse Asma al-Assad – was reportedly admitted to hospital in Moscow after being poisoned.
Putin has reportedly decreed no data have to be made public about Assad, or former first woman Asma, 50, who has most cancers.
