Like every summer, the inhabitants of Laâyoune are surprised by the invasion of the city's streets and main arteries by a horde of mentally ill people, beggars, and vagrants.

These invaders, even if they are often harmless, frighten the inhabitants, particularly women and children. They are not used to seeing bearded men crossing Avenue Mekka and wonder about the reasons for the authorities' passivity in the face of this phenomenon, particularly during the summer.

But the large number of vagrants that the city has welcomed this year leads the inhabitants of Laâyoune to ask questions about the existence of social services whose role should be to house these outcasts.

The population believes that these excluded people are collected in cities where their presence bothers tourists and taken to other cities where their relatives are unlikely to come looking for them.

These vagrants have made a habit of gathering at night in the most frequented squares of the city, in search of food.

This is not the first time that Libé has drawn the authorities' attention to this phenomenon, but their passivity leads us to talk about it again, in the hope that particular attention will be paid to this problem.