I had a call with a experienced gay tourist , French guy from Paris, who told me the following story.

His "colleague" from Belgium , gay sex tourist 65+ yo, has recently died in local hospital in Casablanca following a visit of Moroccan gay-for pay guy whom he found in Grindr.

The case looks as follows :

Belgian guy has hooked up with a local Moroccan guy via Grindr. They agreed the price, the Moroccan guy arrived and was unable to perform at all. The Belgian guy paid him 50% the price while Moroccan requested the full price + taxi. Belgian guy rejected and was hit by Moroccan guy into face several times, felt down and has got a multiple head injuries.

 

He was transfer to local hospital , he later was in conscious over over day and but unfortunately died last week.

Morocco became quite criminal over last decade. It the most criminal country in north Africa

 

Sorry to hear about his passing.

Safety is always an issue if hiring an apartment/airbnb in these locations rather than a hotel. 

I had a non-safety issue in Morocco when I hired an airbnb off-season. A local taxi driver decided that he wanted to become my personal chauffeur for my visit. 

He was probably available too. Maybe mid-twenties but very skinny and like lots of locals smoked etc so wasn't aging well.

He would try to pick me up several times a day, was regularly parked at the exit from the street whenever I came out on foot, offered to get me hashish, a wife, hookers etc.

He was annoying but harmless. I can imagine not all locals are and might be problematic without the barrier of a hotel location.