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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Switzerland is in Europe, it's not part of the EU. However it is a member of the European Free Trade Association and joined the Schengen zone last year. So it's very unusual for Italian police to go through peoples baggage looking for secret compartments.
So either they were tipped off or...
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Yeah, sorry, slip of the fingers - being in continental Europe myself, I know Switzerland is actual *in* Europe, but not part of the EU. my bad
And, no it's not unusual at all - we went from France to Switzerland to Germany last year and on both sides had all our bags searched thoroughly. Border control can search anything and everything.