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Syria’s Islamic rebels marched into Damascus on Sunday and discovered a large fleet of luxury cars, including Mercedes, Porsches, Audis and Ferraris, as they stormed Bashar al-Assad’s palace.
Videos shared on social media show looters gleefully patrolling the presidential palace’s huge garage, filled with luxury roadsters from the deposed dictator’s personal property.
One astute observer’s comment pointed to the Mercedes-Benz with its coveted gullwing doors.
SUVs, motorcycles, ATVs, and even armored trucks await the rebels, who roam the sprawling mansion, taking selfies, firing guns into the air, and bolting. A video shared on the X Show says that whatever is not escaped.
The palace is a vast stone and marble block fortress perched on a hill outside Damascus. The Guardian newspaper once described the building as “a sonorous monument to the dictator’s ornaments”.
According to Reuters, after Assad fled by plane to an unknown location, rebel fighters found the building abandoned, leaving the dictator and his family in the czar’s shoes while the people were in poverty. It is said to have brought an end to 24 years of brutal rule.
A video shared by X shows women in full hijabs scavenging for dishes and bed linen while men carry away furniture and art.
One video shows what appears to be an armory containing dozens of submachine guns.
“I imagine that people close to him and (Assad)… thought, ‘We have enough ammunition!'” We are invincible! Nothing can shake us! Poster TOKO quipped:
Another video shows looters discovering a network of bunkers hidden deep beneath the main structure, with concrete floors strewn with what appear to be empty cigar boxes and gun cases.
“Those who are afraid of people dig hundreds of feet underground,” the poster, Abdullah Almousa, wrote in Arabic.
The palace was not the only government building looted as soldiers took off their uniforms and abandoned their duties.
One user posted a video claiming to show people carrying bags containing “money and valuables” from the central bank.
“Smart people did not go to Assad Palace for chandeliers, but to banks for cash and gold!” he wrote.
