Originally Posted by
GUWonder
The rare exceptions have mostly been on arrival from flights from AMS or a "random" "customs" check when having carry-on luggage only and in the company of persons who appear to be of ethnicities that may be a majority in some countries in Asia or Africa -- these "random" flags usually correlating with the prevalence of racists in the police forces of those EU Schengen countries into which I am arriving.
The only time I've been subject to a "random" check within the Schengen area was in Kaunas, Lithuania. I was detained and interrogated by Lithuanian immigration even though I was boarding an intra-Schengen flight and should not have been checked at all. The fact that I was on an Indian passport with a Schengen visa issued by the German Embassy in Ghana arrived in from Latvia and traveling to Finland with a Schengen entry stamp from Bratislava had nothing to do with it, nor the fact that I was probably the only brown skinned person in a 200 mile radius!