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In fact, this receptionist wanted to keep my passport despite the fact that I had paid in advance.

Seeing my discomfort, he showed me the money I had given him and shouted "not agree... f--k off !", I accepted for one night.

But I am not the kind of person who gives up, and especially, I found inadmissible that a simple youth hostel assumes the right to keep my passport...

What would it happen if I were stopped by the police – how do I prove my identity?
... Inadmissible!

So I went to the ministry of tourism in order to make my complaints.

On the spot, it was explained to me that this practice had been common in order to better control immigration, and that the police regularly make visits to all the accommodations in order to check the identities of foreigners...