Last Sunday night, an unknown influential figure in Syria personally stepped in to disperse internal security forces that surrounded a crime scene where a woman in a four-wheel drive vehicle ran over three policemen and civilians in Al Mazzeh area in the capital, Damascus.
Authorities failed to report the incident on the official website of internal security forces.
Syrian opposition media, such as “Sawt Al Balad” (Voice of the Nation), reported the horrific crime and published a number of pictures shot from the crime scene.
“A female run over police officers, two civilians, and motorbikes while driving recklessly in Al Mazzeh neighborhood,” Sawt Al Balad reported without giving any further details.
Local sources confirmed that the vehicle was a four-wheel drive and was accompanied by an escort vehicle.
Police officers had stopped the vehicle near Al-Mousawwat Hospital for breaking a number of traffic laws. This sent the woman, who was behind the steering wheel, into a frenzy.
She allegedly directed a number of abusive slurs at the officer on duty and contacted her connections for help.
Riding high on hysteria, the woman proceeded to drive frantically, mauling anything in her way, including three police officers and two civilians.
Security forces, eventually, succeeded in cornering and forcing her to step out of the car.
It was then that a very “powerful” individual arrived at the scene announcing that the perpetrator was “one of his” and that they should let her go immediately.
Afterwards, the woman left with this important figure, local sources reported, stressing that neither the perpetrator nor their rescuer were identified.
Those injured in the run over were transported to the nearby Al-Mousawwat Hospital for treatment.
Syrian opposition sources are claiming that the lady in question is Aline Skaf, wife of Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi. She is a Lebanese national and a political refugee in Damascus.
Both she and her husband sought political asylum in Syria after the Gaddafi regime was toppled in Libya in 2012.
