Footage revealing the expansive nuclear bunker deep under Bashar al-Assad’s home also reveals the Syrian dictator loves a cup of Tetley tea.
Two videos shared on X by the user C4H10FO2P, who regularly posts about conflict in Syria, take viewers down into the bowels of the former Syrian president’s home. The dictator, whose family has ruled over the Middle Eastern country since 1971, fled into exile after rebels stormed the capital Damascus, along with his British born wife, Asma al-Assad and their three children. They have been granted asylum by Russia.
As the regime toppled, chaos spilled into the streets with looters raiding banks, making off with boxes of cash, and ransacking the presidential residence as well.
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The footage, which is allegedly shot at the Assad home, starts at a reinforced door, which gives way to another reinforced door, followed by a long, steep set of downward steps.
Behind another reinforced door is a tunnel with even more steps that is so long and steep, it is difficult to see its end and a trolley track runs its length, possibly to cart things up and down.
At the bottom of the tunnel, boxes and objects are strewn about the place. At the end of the tunnel is a large corridor, that looks similar to a storage centre, with multiple rooms, all with reinforced doors that have been flung open.
In one room, a pile plastic cases, bags, briefcases, drawers and boxes are heaped in a disorganised pile. The person taking the footage rifles through some of it before walking towards a mega-reinforced door that requires a wheel to open it.
However, he can’t get in, so he turns back and tries his luck with another room, which turns out to been a kitchen, that also appears to have been gone through, with cupboards flung open.
As he surveys the room, a box of Tetley teabags can be seen on the bench top. He then walks into an adjoining room which appears to be the Assad nuclear living room, kitted out with a sofa suite and a coffee table, and which comes with an ensuite too.
The man leaves the room, having pilfered a briefcase from the previous room and a platter of objects that were placed on the coffee table.