Aleppo: Officers sell Army's bread in black market

Local sources in government-held Aleppo province revealed that while bread is abundant in the area for less than 300 pounds per packet, army officers are selling soldiers’ bread portions to feed merchants.

According to the sources, a few days ago, a merchant bought 500 kilograms of bread in Salah al-Din neighbourhood in Aleppo from an officer at 200 pounds per kilo, to be sold in turn as animal fodder at 500 SYP/Kg after it dries.

Officers are selling the bread in bulk in the open, and since the bread that is baked for the soldiers is mostly inedible, it is sold to the animals.

The regime has recently introduced rules limiting the amount of subsidised bread available per person, raising the number of families that are now food-insecure with the country’s crippling economic crisis and making the price of bread a bleak new measure of its financial plight.