The MP had claimed that some companies were “grinding paper” and selling it as flour intended for low-income households, calling on the government to “take this matter seriously” and stressing that “such flour is not fit for consumption.”
These remarks sparked widespread controversy over the quality of subsidized bread and the transparency of Morocco’s public flour subsidy system, prompting the prosecution to step in to shed light on the allegations.
Amid the growing uproar, Ahmed Touizi later clarified his comments, explaining that his phrase “grinding paper instead of wheat” referred, in his words, to “corruption practices linked to invoice falsification” by certain flour mills benefiting from public subsidies, totaling 16.8 billion dirhams this year.
The MP also accused what he described as the “flour mills lobby” of attempting to divert the public debate “to escape accountability for possible abuses and to preserve significant financial privileges.”
Editorial team/le7tv