Former Syrian president Bashar Assad ‘is hospitalised by poisoning assassination attempt’, respected rights group says

Reports have emerged from an assassination attempt by former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow.

The former dictator obtained political asylum in Russia after being deposited ten months ago.

The group of respected rights, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said – citing a “private source” – that Assad was released from the hospital on the outskirts of Moscow on Monday.

The source said that Assad had been “poisoned” and that the reason behind the assassination operation was “to embarrass the Russian government and to accuse him of being an accomplice” of his death.

The report indicates that Assad’s state was now “stable”.

Only his brother Maher Assad was authorized to visit him in the hospital in the middle of a major security operation, he said.

The Russian government has not been commented on to complaints to date.

Unbehavered reports suggested earlier that he had been admitted to the hospital in a “critical state after poisoning”.

Reports emerged from an assassination attempt by former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow

The new authorities in Syria demanded the extradition of Assad that Russia has so far refused.

Putin has personally granted asylum to Assad with family members and diet partners.

Assad, 60, has not been seen in public since his arrival in Russia and is supposed to be kept closely by the Russian secret services.

So far there is no independent evidence of the poisoning of Assad.

A previous report after Assad had been in Russia less than a month said that he was complaining about his safety to feel bad and have trouble breathing ”.

However, this account has not been confirmed.

The American State Department estimates that the family of the former dictator is worth $ 2 billion, their wealth hidden in many accounts, screens companies, offshore tax havens and real estate portfolios.

He, his British wife and their three adult children left their Syrian palates and started a new life in Moscow when Putin granted them asylum in December.

Asma al-Assad, a daughter of an original doctor from London who married in the brutal autocratic dynasty, got used to a luxury life

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma (C) and their children Zein, on the left, Karim, right and Hafez, walk in front of the great mosque of Aleppo, Syria

They were likely to rely on their family ties and their vast active in Russia to maintain their comfortable lifestyle in exile.

The autocratic dynasty would have bought at least 20 Moscow apartments worth more than 30 million pounds sterling in recent years, illustrating the status of Russia as a refuge for the clan.

Asma al-Assad, the daughter of the doctor of London origin who struggled against an aggressive form of leukemia, would have largely arrived in Moscow with her daughter and two sons a few days before her husband finally fled Syria.

Secret tunnels under a mansion of the Assad family were discovered after the rebels seized the capital Damascus, the network serving as a possible escape for the dictator and his allies.

Meanwhile, reports suggested that Al-Assad could have run away via the Khmeimim air base in Russia, flight trackers showing a Russian plane taking off near the city in northeast latakia a few hours before it was in Moscow.

The takeover without opposition from the Syrian capital after a lightning offensive by rebel groups put an end to a civil war of 13 years and six decades of the autocratic domination of the Assad family.

It was deeply embarrassing for Putin, after Moscow injected military and financial aid from his government and bombed Syria for years to help support the Assad regime.

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