Submit yourselves willingly to safety controls because they are in your own interest. These controls take place before arrivals in departure lounge.  Hand luggage must pass through an X-ray screening device. On a screen, the safety agent checks their content. Your hand luggage can also be subject to a manual search.

If you have in your pocket bunch of keys or any metallic object and want to avoid activating the metal detector alarm while passing through the security gate, then put them on the X-ray control device mat. Because of the security measures intensification in air transport, you will have, from now on, to proceed in the same way for any object, metallic or not, which you carry on - watch, bracelet, necklace, etc - as well as your jacket or coat. For small objects, a basket is provided to put them in. Your objects and clothes will be returned to you after your passage through the security gate.

It is however necessary to remind that it is formally banned to place in your hand luggage any blunt or cutting object as pocket knives, scissors, knives, cutters, weapons or object which can be look like a weapon, etc. Any object of this type will be removed from you during the controls and could be destroyed without you obtaining any compensation.
If you carry a pacemaker or other implanted device - insulin pumps, certain hearing equipments -, inform the security agent about it and do not pass through the security gate – still, you will not be exempt from body search control. 

You should also know that as a supplementary precaution you could be asked to identify your registered luggage.
Finally, never let your luggage lying around at the airport without being attended to.

Guidelines for prohibited articles classification :

These guidelines concern the various shapes of weapons and regular use objects. However, common sense is usually used to determine whether to consider an object as weapon.

• Firearms : Any weapon firing a projectile under an explosion effect or under air or compressed gases action, including guns and rocket launcher guns.
• Knives and sharp instruments : sabers, swords, cutters, hunting knifes, pocket knives, martial arts instruments, work tools and other knives with a blade length equal or higher than 6 cm
• Blunt instruments : Truncheons, clubs, bats or similar instruments.
• Explosives/ Ammunition/Flammable liquids /Corrosive substance : Any explosive or flammable material which, by itself or combined to other materials, can cause an explosion or a fire. This category includes explosive materials, detonators, pyrotechnics supplies, gasoline, other flammable liquids, ammunitions, etc., or any combination of these products. Any corrosive or toxic material, including gases, compressed or not.
• Neutralizing or stun products : Teargases stun and other similar chemicals or gases products contained in a gun, a metal bomb or any other container, and other neutralizing products such as electronic devices having a paralyzing or neutralizing effect by electric shock.
• Other items, such as ice picks, alpenstocks, straight razors, artificial weapon or grenade toys, sharp scissors which are generally not considered as mortal or dangerous but can, nevertheless, be used as a weapon.
•  All kind of items reasonably able to make believe that they are mortal weapons, including but not limited to, objects resembling explosives or weapons.
• Biological and chemical products and substances used in attacks.  Chemical and biological attacks possibilities include the use of chemical or biological agents to commit illegal acts. These regulated chemical or biological substances include in particular: sulfur mustard gas, vx, chlorine, sarin, hydrogen cyanide, anthrax, botulism, smallpox, tularemia and viral hemorrhagic fever.
   
• Items appearing as chemical or biological substances or suspected to contain such substances are immediately reported to airport authorities, police force, military authorities or other relevant authorities and are isolated from airport areas open to public.