Which airport has the most "checks"?

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By checks I mean anytime you have to stopped by an agent to even check your passport or ask a question.

My nomination goes to Rabat in Morocco. I have been there twice now and the steps are as follows.

1 - Getting to the door of the building. There is an X-Ray machine and metal detector.
2 - Have to go to the Baggage drop to collect boarding pass even if you are only doing carry on. I was flying with Air France which has digital boarding pass, but it would not allow me to collect a digital one, has to get a physical one. (I've been twice now, both times the same)
3 - After boarding pass, I need to go upstairs to departure lounge. There is a guard to check your boarding pass before you go upstairs.
4 - Immediately there is a lady there who ask if you have anything to declare. Like on arrival, you have to declare anything to bring into the country, same thing but now the opposite.
5 - Now upstairs, they check your passport and stamp it at immigration.
6 - Another guard 2 meters behind the booth of where you just got stamped, he checks that your passport did get stamped.
7 - Now to take out your liquids and laptops for the actual X-ray machines and metal detector.
8 - At the gate, boarding pass checks to get onto the plane.

Any airport can beat that?
 
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Not most checks, but most ******* anal about their liquids policy - Manchester. They're the most picky people ever. Basel are like whatever, just chuck it in a bag. Manchester - if the bag doesn't seal, can't take it. If you have more than one sealed bag, can't take it. I think they just like ******* with passengers to brighten their miserable days.

That was Paris for me. I had to throw away some stuff because I had carry on only and I was gifted some toiletries as a present and didn't want to throw those away. So a brand new tube of toothpaste had to go, some expensive acne cream had to go too.
 
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