It comes as an employee of the Marrakesh hotel where two women stayed before their murder told MailOnline that they were with three other female friends who left them to go surfing just days before they were killed.
Maren and Louisa spent one night at the Faouzi Hotel, a backpackers' hotel yards from Marrakesh's main square in the city's tourist district.
'They checked in on the 10th and spent only one night here,' the hotel employee, who asked not to be named, said.
'There were five girls together in the beginning. All tourists. The next morning, three of them went off surfing. The other two, Maren and Louisa, went into town at noon, leaving their luggage here.
'They came back at five in the afternoon to collect their luggage. They went and changed into outdoors clothes for the mountains.
'They were laughing between themselves. They were in a normal, happy mood. They were young, beautiful, cool and funny. They came here to have a good time.
'While they were packing, three other guys were waiting for them outside the hotel. They were Moroccans.
'They were young and they seemed clean-cut. They didn't seem like they were criminals. They were young, not more than 27 or 28 years old, and they seemed like nice guys, not at all suspicious.
'I think they met with the girls in the square and started speaking in English, and that's how they met. They were outside the hotel and didn't come in.
'Once they had changed, the girls packed their backpacks and left with the guys.
'They left the hotel and we didn't hear about them again until the 17th, when we heard that they had been murdered.'
Locals near the murder scene said the three men pitching the tent were not known in the area.
A hotelier said: 'Three homeless men came from Marrakesh and pitched a tent right next to the girls' tent. The men were not from round here.'