(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists were mourning the loss of Marie Christine Dubois, a Belgian advocate of the Syrian revolution. She has not been stopped by language, geography or religion to support the Syrians in their just revolution over the past eight years.
Marie made great efforts to help the Syrian refugees in Belgium and opened her heart and doors before she died at the age of 90, in a Belgian hospital.
Mohammed Sulaiman al-Madfa, a translator and political activist, told Zaman al-Wasl that he knew Marie on Facebook in 2016. He met her in 2016 when he gave a lecture on the Syrian issue in the Belgian city of Marchan where she lives.
He explained that she was waiting for his arrival and received him warmly and presented him to the Belgian public (more than 130 people). Then she gave him a book in French entitled “Opération césar: Au Coeur de la machine de mort Syrienne”.
According to our source, Marie was fluent in 10 languages, including Arabic, but he was communicating with her in French.
He discovered that Dubois worked also in favor of the Palestinian cause. She went to Tunisia and studied Arabic. She worked in tourism and then became a translator at the European Union headquarters in Brussels until she retired. After the Syrian revolution, she participated in all her activities in Belgium.
Despite her age, she helped and cared for the Syrian refugees who arrived in Belgium, she came against the regime and his assistants in Belgium and was keen to wear the flag of the Syrian revolution and considered it a symbol of freedom.
The source said that Dubois was following all the books and publications about the Syrian revolution.
He revealed that she attended a lecture for Randa Kassis in the city of "Liege" one day and refuted all claims of the revolution, and fought with someone claimed to be from Hezbollah.
He pointed out that she told him once that she boycotted a Belgian television after presented a bad TV program concerning the Syrian revolution , and sent one day a strongly worded message to one of the French channels to broadcast a program does not do justice to the Syrian revolution.
Mohammed said that a week before her death, she told him that she had checked her doctor, had her tests done and reassured her that she was doing well.
She asked him to meet from time to time, but he said that he traveled to Budapest. Upon his return, he was surprised by a call from someone from her hometown telling him of her death.
Mohammed expressed his deep sorrow over the death of his friend who lived the Syrian tragedy and put efforts to support the revolution.
He called on all the free people to pay attention to people to this kind because they are loyal to the cause they believe in.
(Reporting by Faris al-Rifai)
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