(30 November 2020)
France‘s spy agency, DGSE, helped the former general leave Syria for France in 2014, however he was refused asylum in the country in 2015 over concerns he may have been involved in criminal acts.
Mysteriously, he was then taken from France to Austria by Israeli intelligence agents where he was granted asylum, a judicial source told the Daily Telegraph.
‚As he was really peeved not to get asylum in France, he appears to have made contact with Mossad, who got in contact with Austria‘s BVT [the country‘s domestic intelligence agency],‘ the source said.