Anti-Narcotics Department: Since liberation, we have focused on combating the smuggling and trafficking of drugs

Damascus, SANA-Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department in Syria, Brigadier General Khaled Eid, said that since the first moment of liberation and the fall of the deposed regime, the department has assumed a big responsibility to  confront one of the most dangerous challenges left behind by that regime, which turned Syria into a hotbed for the manufacture and export of narcotic toxins, negatively impacting Syrian society, neighboring countries, and the Gulf, with its repercussions reaching  the center of Europe.

 “On the International Drug Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, we affirm that our combat against this scourge is ongoing, and we will not allow it to spread or be promoted among people. Anyone who dares to tamper with the security of society, will be subject to legal accountability until we achieve our target to make Syria free from narcotics,” General Eid said in a statement on the occasion of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

He added that 13 drug manufacturing warehouses were seized, 121 tons of raw materials used in this industry,  320 million Captagon pills, and 1,826 kg of hashish were confiscated.

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