translated from Spanish: Snake charmers arrested for collecting 800 pesos per photo

Morocco, (EFE).- A photo with a snake around the neck is one of the tourist attractions of the famous Yemaa al Fna square in the city of Marrakech, and it is well known that snake charmers are not only insistent, but abuse the price of their services. This is the case of a foreign tourist who gave up the harassment of one of these professionals in the square and was photographed with the reptile around the neck, but when he heard that he demanded 450 dirhams (861 pesos) for the photo that had just been made , felt that she had been scammed, according to the web portal today le360.ma.

If anyone wonders why he didn’t ask the price first, ignore the usual modus operandi: reptile owners hang the office around your neck saying “Photo only, photo only,” and then ask you what they want.
That’s how they and the naughty macaconowners of the same square work: the photo costs as much as much as they want. But the tourist did not shut up, but went to complain to the Tourist Police, always present in the square, and the agents gave him the reason; so much, that they brought the case to the attention of the Marrakesh prosecutor, and he decided to pursue the snake charmer, and to do so, moreover, under a state of detention.

A snake charmer. Illustrative photo Pxhere.

It is the first time that such a case is made public, which will certainly serve as a dig for the caste that forms one of the most peculiar trades in Marrakesh.

Original source in Spanish