German tourist extorted by taxi drivers in Agadir

A German tourist claims that drivers of grand taxis chased, threatened and extorted foreign tourists in a regular car in Tamraght, heading towards Taghazout. Exasperated, she filed a complaint with the Wali of the Souss-Massa region, governor of the Agadir Ida-Outanane prefecture.

According to the complaint, Achkayn holds a copy, while the German tourist was on September 10, accompanied by her friends, around 9:00 p.m., in an ordinary car in Tamraght, heading towards Taghazout, three large taxis (whose numbers she mentioned) began to chase them not far from the crossroads near the royal gendarmerie. In the process, the drivers of these vehicles surrounded them, accusing the driver of their car of using the application (InDrive), says the complainant, adding that they began to extort them, threaten them, and prevented them from continuing on their way. According to her account, they held them for an hour and a quarter, from 9:00 p.m. to 10:15 p.m., continuing to extort them and demanding a sum of money to let them leave, extracting 400 dirhams from them without any legal basis.