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Visit to #Captagon factory in #Douma near #Damascus:

"Inside building’s basement, millions of white pills were scattered across floor, stretching as far as eye could see. The first ones we noticed were lying on an old Syrian flag being trampled on by a rebel"

(h/t New Lines Magazine)

#Drugs #Captagon #Siria #News

🇪🇸 ¿Qué es el captagon, el estimulante ilegal que hizo de la Siria de Al Asad un narco-Estado?
www.nytimes.com/es/2024/12/14/espanol/mundo/captagon-siria-asad.html

🇬🇧 What Is Captagon, the Illegal Stimulant That Made al-Assad’s Syria a Narcostate?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/world/middleeast/captagon-stimulant-assad-syria.html

Under Bashar al-Assad, Syria became the main producer of captagon with estimated revenues of $5 billion.

🎨 Plop & KanKr 🇫🇷

O #Captagon "é popular no #OrienteMédio porque é erroneamente visto como uma droga de baixo risco. Também é visto como não tão abertamente #haram [contra os preceitos do #Islã] quanto o álcool.
É frequentemente usado como uma "droga de festa". Muitos usuários são jovens em países muçulmanos onde o álcool é proibido. São efeitos estimulantes, que aumentam o foco, a energia e a resistência. Estudantes usam captagon para lidar com provas,soldados usam em zonas de conflitos."
noticias.uol.com.br/internacio

UOL · O que é captagon, 'cocaína dos pobres' que financiou ditadura brutalBy Rodrigo Ortega

@courrierinter Le captagon, initialement un médicament psychotrope, est devenu une source de revenus colossale pour le régime syrien depuis 2011. Estimé à 10 milliards de dollars par an, ce trafic est orchestré par Maher al-Assad, frère de Bachar. Alors que des usines clandestines sont découvertes, l'avenir du captagon reste incertain. Les rebelles promettent d'éradiquer cette production, mais la dépendance économique complique la situation. #Captagon #Syrie #NarcoÉtat 💊💰

Das ging ja schneller als gedacht: Norman Ohler meinte noch vor zwei Monaten bei AI,
«Es ist eine unfassbare Story. Die müsste man recherchieren, man müsste die Captagonfabriken finden, man müsste in die Buchhaltung rein, man müsste die Auftragsbücher sehen […] Das ist schwierig, sehr gefährliche Recherche.»

srf.ch/news/international/mill #Captagon

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)Captagon – ein Droge als Einkommensquelle des Assad-RegimesNach dem Sturz von Syriens Regierung kommen neue Details zu Geschäften mit der Droge Captagon ans Licht.