The Ministry of Interior announces the arrest of the first accused of committing the Tadamon massacre

The Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of  Amjad Youssef, the "first accused" of the massacre of the Tadamon neighborhood that took place in the capital Damascus in 2013.

The ministry said in a statement published on its official identifiers on Friday, April 24, 2026, that "the criminal Amjad Youssef, the first accused of committing the Tadamon massacre, was arrested by the Internal Security Forces, during a security operation carried out in the countryside of Hama."

The ministry added that "the monitoring and tracking operations continued for several days before implementation in the Al-Ghab plain in Hama countryside, as part of a careful and continuous follow-up," stressing that it "will continue  to pursue the rest of the perpetrators of the massacre, to arrest them and bring them to justice."

For his part, Interior Minister Anas Khattab wrote a post on his account on the "X" platform: "The criminal Amjad Youssef, the first accused of committing the Tadamon massacre, is in our custody after a tight security operation."

Solidarity Massacre

The Tadamon massacre took place on April 16, 2013, and killed  41 civilians, and their bodies were thrown into a large pit in the Damascus neighborhood of Tadamon by the forces of the former regime, and human bones were later found in the area, according to what the media monitored on December 20, 2024.

On April 27,  2022, the British newspaper "The Guardian" published a video clip showing the forces of the "Branch 227" of the regime's military intelligence killing at least 41 people and burning their bodies in the Tadamon neighborhood, and in the clip, "Youssef", whose face was clearly visible in the photos, was seen shooting at civilians who were arrested blindfolded and handcuffed.