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| Asma al-Assad |
According to Reuters, the European Union has officially frozen the assets of and put a ban on travel for the Syrian President's wife, Asma al-Assad. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/23/syria-eu-sanctions-idUSL6E8EN83I20120323
The Guardian newspaper has obtained e-mails she exchanged with her husband, apparently showing they were buying pop music and luxury goods on the internet during the recent bloodshed. Asma, a 36-year-old mother of three and former investment banker, was shown to have a penchant for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin shoes and Chanel dresses from France.
As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shops online for luxury goods while her country burns. She is a British national and in London officials said the EU travel ban could not prevent her from entering Britain. "British citizens subject to EU travel bans cannot be refused entry to the UK," a UK Border Agency spokesperson said. The ban would stop her from travelling to the other 26 EU nations, an EU diplomat said.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/03/2012323553830686.html"She is one of the robbers. The price of her shoes is enough to feed three families in Syria for one year," activist Omar al-Muqdad, now in Turkey, told ABC News. "She is an important part of our pain."
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