Foreign journalist Antti Kuronen arrived in Damascus on Tuesday evening, just two days after the change of power in the country.
Risto Mattila,
Antti Kuronen
20:37•Updated 20:44
Foreign reporter Antti Kuronen found a rare, illuminated spot in Damascus while preparing for a live broadcast of the evening’s TV news. It’s a small juice stand in the city center.
– The juice bar probably works with a generator. The rest of the city of Damascus is dark, he says.
Kuronen reports from the capital just before the curfew begins.
Electricity works sporadically, but this was already the case with the ousted president Bashar al-Assad during Kuronen knows.
– There have still been no safety problems.
He says that he has visited the Christian area of the city, where it has also been peaceful.
But you don’t know about tomorrow and the future, they had said.
According to Kuronen, the city has been celebrating hard for a couple of days. Now the partying is calming down and the streets have been cleaned. However, nobody knows what will happen next, Kuronen concludes.