Two docs and a nurse say they have been “pressured” by Bashar al-Assad's regime to change their testimony and deny any use of chemical weapons earlier than worldwide investigators following a lethal 2018 chlorine assault in Douma, close to in Damascus.
On 7 April 2018, as Douma, the final insurgent stronghold in japanese Ghouta, was below heavy shelling, a constructing close to a area hospital was hit.
In an unique interview with Agence France-Presse, three well being staff who had taken care of the victims of the assault say that they have been interrogated by the safety companies.
“They informed me they knew the place to seek out my household,” orthopedic surgeon Mohammad Al Hanas informed AFP.
“A gun was positioned on the desk, pointed at me,” mentioned intensivist Hassan Uyoun.
Muaffak Nisrin, who was an ambulance driver and nurse on the time, was additionally questioned after he was caught on video patting the again of a unadorned little lady who was being doused with water as she spat out phlegm after inhaling poisonous gasoline.
“They informed us there was no chemical assault, that they wished to place an finish to those allegations in order that Douma might flip the web page,” he recalled.
“I used to be below stress as my household resides in Douma, like most households of medical employees,” he says.
In a report, the Group for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in January 2023 accused Damascus of finishing up the chlorine assault that killed 43 folks.
In response to its investigators, “there are good causes to imagine” that at the very least one Syrian air power helicopter dropped two barrels of poisonous gasoline on town of Douma.
Supply: APE-MPE-AFP
