Shock in Damascus .. iron cages to organize the role of bread

Governmental bakeries in Damascus have resorted to setting up iron mesh cages to organize standing in the bread line.

The local "Al-Madina Radio" reported that the director of Damascus bakeries, Nael Asamandar, refused to comment on the validity of the image of the cages, and said only that this way of organizing the role and separating men, women and the military, also indicated that "the culture of the role does not exist in our country."


The iron cages sparked angry reactions on social media, and activists circulated pictures showing dozens of civilians inside an iron cage on the queue of the floor in front of the "Ibn Al-Ameed" oven, in a way they described as humiliating. They confirmed that they resemble cages in zoos or prison cages.

In an attempt to solve the bread crisis that intensified last September, the Ministry of Internal Trade imposed a policy of rationing the distribution of bread, whereby the individual's share per day was set at 3 loaves, by allocating a bundle (7 loaves of about 800 grams) to a family of two people, and two ties for a family of 4 Persons.

It is received via a "smart card" according to the chip system.

Bakeries were also prohibited from selling outside the "smart card" except for 5 percent of sales going to special cases that do not have a card.

As university students and residents outside their governorates or others, according to tables of names, the national number, and the phone number.

Two days ago, Prime Minister Hussein Arnous tried to "reassure" the Syrians by saying that the subsidized bread is still a "red line that will not be touched."

Except for simple limits.

The website of the Syrian newspaper, Al-Watan, stated that Arnous said that the wheat bought by Damascus was sufficient for the production of bread for only one and a half months.

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