The Burkini is displayed on mannequins at a sports store in Dubai | Marwan Naamani/AFP via Getty Images Italian minister: Burkini ban risks provoking terror attacks French model has not ‘worked for the best,’ according to Angelino Alfano.

France's government-backed burkini bans on public beaches risk inciting terrorist attacks, Italy's interior minister has warned.

Angelino Alfano told the Corriere della Sera newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that the ban on the full-body swimsuit known as a burkini, introduced by several French towns this summer, has not "worked for the best."

"The interior ministry's responsibility is to guarantee security and to decide the severity of responses which however must never become provocations that could potentially attract attacks," Alfano said.

The minister said he would focus instead on regulating mosques, including by ensuring all imams were trained in Italy.

"Enough already with these homemade mosques springing up in garages," he said.

In France, the seaside resorts of Leucate, Oye-Plage and Le Touquet, were expected to join cities such as Cannes in banning the burkini over concerns about religious extremism, AFP reported Tuesday.

“The burkini is not a new range of swimwear, a fashion," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told La Provence newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. "It is the expression of a political project, a counter-society, based notably on the enslavement of women.”