Photo: EPA/SANAA woman married to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s cousin applied for asylum protection in Germany. According to local newspaper Westfälische Nachrichten, which first reported the story, the woman had been the victim of an internal family dispute in 2015, and was shot by another relative with four bullets. She arrived in Germany last summer and was first brought to a reception centre in Bad Berleburg, according to the Westfälische Nachrichten. The woman applied for asylum in September, and was assigned to live in Warendorf at the beginning of this year. Holtstiege told the Westfälische Nachrichten that they had already alerted authorities in Lower Saxony’s capital of Hanover about the woman’s background.

Source: The Local June 13, 2017 09:11 UTC