Accused of “looting houses’ doors and windows” | Civilians and NDF members arrested in Al-Mayadeen city

Deir Ezzor province: Members of the regime intelligence have arrested four civilians and four members of the “National Defence” in Al-Mayadeen city on charges of looting houses’ doors and windows.

Reliable sources have reported that security forces patrol has found more than100 iron doors and 60 windows inside a house at the outskirt of the city that has been transferred into a warehouse for storing the stolen objects.

On January 18, the Syrian Observatory obtained documents from Muhassan town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which is under the control of the regime and Iranian militias, stating that the property of opponents and members of the regime’s Al-Baath party and peasant group, against whom “Reserve seizure” had been issued earlier, were offered by the city’s elder for rent.

According to Observatory sources, all properties in houses, shops, and farmlands estimated to be nearly 250 land plots were offered for rent.

The majority of these properties’ owners had been displaced from Deir Ezzor, either to northern Syria, areas controlled by SDF, or areas outside the country.

A day earlier, reliable sources informed SOHR that a new Iranian-backed Iraqi militia, known as “Nineveh fighters,” seized a residential building near the old prison in Al-Bokamal city in Deir Ezzor countryside and forcibly evicted four families from their houses in order to turn these houses into military headquarters.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, “Nineveh militiamen” stole furniture from houses they had captured.