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Sunday, December 8, 2024
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
Syrians in Berlin celebrate the downfall of Assad’s government
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHundreds of Syrians take to the streets to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Some cheer and rejoice in front of a Syrian bakery on the German capital’s Sonnenallee boulevard in the neighborhood of Neukoelln, famous for its many Arabic stores, restaurants and coffee shops.
People wave flags emblazoned with “Free Syria” while others flock in motorcades, according to German news agency dpa.
Many, originally from Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, live in Neukoelln.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled the civil war in their home country and reached Germany by crossing the Mediterranean on flimsy rubber boats and trekking up the Balkan, often for days and weeks by foot.
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