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No peer confirmation yet outside of Syrian and Turkish sources. This'll either get covered by Western media in a few weeks or get memory-holed.
Translated by Brave:
Hanged nephew of Bashar al-Assad?!
On one Syrian Vocap order, a disturbing footage circulates in which a moment is reportedly seen as rebels and a raging mass hang their nephew Bashar al-Assad, the former president of Syria.
A gathered raging group of people allegedly hanged Suleiman al-Assad in the main square in the city of Lataki.
As a reminder, the nephew of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed a high-ranking commander of Syrian war airship, allegedly due to overtaking in driving, the British Guardian wrote in 2015, Kurir reports.
Namely, Air Force Chief Hasan al-Sheikh „froze to overtake Suleiman al-Asada on one busy street in the city of Latakia“.
„Asad followed him, he flew out before him by car, stopped, came out and killed him in place“, he spoke for AFP then Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
There were also his children in the car with the colonel, who were terrified to observe the death of the born father.
Rahman then said that in the coastal city of Latakia, the condition was tense, and that part of the people demanded the arrest and punishment of the president’s nephew.
Members of Asad's family then visited the widow of Colonel al-Sheikh, and Suleiman was given 24 hours to surrender to the police.
The late General Maher al-Assad, otherwise his cousin, said on that occasion that he would bring him to justice, alive or dead, the Guardian wrote.
Lataki is the capital of the province of the same name and in this area lives a large number of members of the Shiite sect Alavita to which the family Asad, which has ruled Syria for more than half a century.
Just 24-year-old Baar al-Assad ruled the country for 13 years, of which he led the country through a bloody religious and civil war that killed more than half a million people, while millions of refugees left the country and fled to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and many for Europe.
Zuar al-Asad was officially overthrown on December 8, when he left Syria from an unknown location and fled to Russia in which he received political asylum with his family.
No peer confirmation yet outside of Syrian and Turkish sources. This'll either get covered by Western media in a few weeks or get memory-holed.