Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p>Sales of the synthetic drug <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Captagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Captagon</span></a> were used as a source of funding for the brutal regime, making Syria its largest producer. Among the secrets uncovered by rebel fighters since Assad fled the country, large-scale illegal drug factories housed in villas on the outskirts of Damascus. FRANCE 24's Emily Boyle reports.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Assad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drugs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TUmNCV6N4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=L-TUmNCV6N4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>