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In some most touristic areas (ie: on the route from Rissani to Merzouga) police might think your driver is an unauthorized guide illegally getting money from you, so be ready to explain them (in French!) you're just hitchhiking and your driver was just very kind in helping you. Having some picture of your hitchhiking experience will help convincing them, otherwise your driver might get a fine, and of course you'll offer to pay for it.
Though often helpful for hitchin, '''police may cause you serious problem free camping or sleeping in the streets'''. They say for your security it is forbidden (also couchsurfing in theory your host shoul take a permission from the police station but nobody cares normally) and you are obliged to go to hotels. No problems if the village/town is that small and don't have any hotel, but if there is even one, they will bring you there.
[[User: Fedecicco| Fede]] has been detained at the police station three times, once in Azilal on the atlas mountains (few time and kind cops), another in Sa'idya (border with Algeria and "maximum suspect", 3-4 hours interrogation and document check) and last in Chefchaouen (the worst ever, kept 5 hours and the day after threaten to be expulsed from the "kingdom" if he didn't leave the ciy).
It seems that if you are vagabond or anyway not conventional tourist they don't like you at all, and they most often like foreigners just cause they bring money into their country.
*All the three times they forced me to go to hotel and they pay it for me (imposed the owner not to let me pay) but the annoyance and the questioning was so bothering. The last time even, the most racist sentence ever heard: "you are lucky to have an Italian citizenship"..''Fede''
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