On this historic day for Syria and the Syrian people, France welcomes the fall of Bachar al-Assad and his regime on 8 December 2024, after more than 13 years of extremely violent repression of his own people. The Syrians have suffered too much. Bachar al-Assad leaves in his wake a country that has been bled dry, emptied of a large portion of its population, which, if not forced into exile, has been slaughtered, tortured and bombarded with chemical weapons by the regime and its allies. (…)
