Syria’s Interior Ministry arrested Amjad Youssef, the main suspect accused of carrying out the Tadamon massacre in Damascus, during a security operation in Hama countryside on Friday, April 24.
The ministry announced that Internal Security Forces arrested Youssef in an operation carried out in Hama countryside on Friday morning, April 24.
Enab Baladi’s correspondent in Hama reported that the arrest took place in Youssef’s village, Nabe al-Tayeb, which belongs to the al-Suqaylabiyah area in Hama countryside.
A video recording showed the arrest of Amjad Youssef, the perpetrator of the Tadamon massacre, by Internal Security Forces in Syria.
The video shows Youssef inside an Internal Security vehicle, surrounded by a group of personnel.
Youssef is known as one of the perpetrators of the Tadamon neighborhood massacre in Damascus in 2013.
He appeared in a video recording of the massacre carrying out the field execution of 41 people and burying them in a mass grave.
He is also accused of carrying out around 12 other mass killings.
Other Officials Linked to the Massacre Arrested
The Interior Ministry had announced the arrest of officials involved in the Tadamon massacre on February 17, 2025.
At the time, Damascus Security Director Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Rahman al-Dabbagh told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that security agencies had arrested “one of the leading criminals responsible for the Tadamon massacre in Damascus 12 years ago.”
He added that preliminary investigations led security authorities to several people who participated in the massacre, and that two of them were arrested.
What Was the Tadamon Massacre?
An investigation by The Guardian revealed information about a massacre committed by the forces of the deposed Syrian regime on April 16, 2013, in the Tadamon neighborhood of Damascus, which resulted in the killing of 41 people and their burial in a mass grave.
The investigation included a video showing dozens of people being shot and buried in a mass grave, before their bodies were burned by members of the Syrian regime, according to the investigation published by the British newspaper on April 27, 2022.
The investigation was based on documents and testimonies provided by researchers Annsar Shahhoud and Professor Ugur Umit Ungor, from the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam, citing a former soldier in the regime forces who managed to obtain the video.
The Guardian reported in October 2022 that Amjad Youssef, the most prominent official responsible for the Tadamon massacre, was still serving at the time at a military base near Damascus. He was also accused by his colleagues of carrying out around 12 other mass killings.
The regime said at the time that the recording showing the Tadamon massacre was fabricated.
The journalists who conducted the investigation, Shahhoud and Professor Ugur Umit Ungor, relied on gathering the stories of survivors and their families, and speaking to the perpetrators of the violations themselves. They did so by creating a Facebook account for Shahhoud that carried her personal photo, but used the pseudonym “Anna,” after she learned that officers and officials in the regime’s ranks widely used the platform.
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