Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001094/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Virginie Joron (PfE)
‘Streets piled with bodies: Syrians report massacres of Alawite and Christian civilians’.[1] The facts are devastating: reports point to a wave of killings in Syria targeting Alawites and Christians, including ten women and five children. On 10 March 2025, BFMTV reported that 745 civilians, mainly Alawites, had been massacred in the Latakia region between 6 and 8 March 2025 by Syrian regime forces and their allies.
However, in a statement of 8 March 2025, ‘diplomats’ from the European External Action Service (EEAS) completely ignored these ongoing massacres, attributing the attacks to ‘pro-Assad elements’[2]. This is blatant disinformation that damages the EU’s reputation.
- 1.Can the Commission verify the EEAS statement that the recent attacks on civilians, including Christians and Alawites, are being carried out by ‘pro-Assad elements’ alone, or does it acknowledge that the new regime is involved in the massacres of civilians?
- 2.Has the Commission urged the interim Syrian Government to put an end to the massacres by government forces or Islamist factions of children, women, civilians and prisoners from the Alawite and Christian communities?
- 3.How much financial assistance has the new Syrian Government received from the EU since December 2024?
Submitted: 13.3.2025
- [1] https://www.bfmtv.com/international/moyen-orient/syrie/les-rues-pleines-de-cadavres-des-syriens-temoignent-des-massacres-de-civils-alaouites-et-chretiens_AV-202503100384.html, https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-minorities-including-christians-killed-syria-reports-2041764, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/north-west-syria-un-latakia-assad-regime-loyalists-killings
- [2] https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/spokesperson-statement-latest-developments-syria_en