Thomas de Maiziere has announced a string of proposed policies (Picture: Getty Images)

Germany is to consider a ban on full-face veils in public among other measures proposed in response to growing security concerns.

Thomas de Maiziere, the interior minister, will today announce a string of potential policies contrived in response to multiple violent incidents, including an axe attack on a Bavarian train and the hacking to death of a pregnant woman in Stuttgart.

The proposal include the increase of the number of police and the installation of CCTV cameras at transport hubs. Doctors, under the new proposals, could more easily break confidentiality agreements if they believed a patient represented a threat, and it would become harder to obtain dual nationality.



The ruling Christian Democrat party aims to have the proposals made law by the time of the national elections in 2017.


The CDU is under mounting pressure after its invitation to Syrian migrants to take refuge in Germany was blamed for the mass sexual assault and robberie of hundreds of women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, and axe, machete and bomb attacks in recent weeks.

MP Jens Spahn proposed the burqa ban (Picture: Getty Images)

Angela Merkel conceded that terrorists were ‘mocking the country’ that had tried to help refugees by exploiting Germany’s open border policy.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party won its first seats in the Bundestag in March.

‘A ban on the full veil, ie the niqab and the burqa, is overdue and would be a signal to the world,’ said Jens Spahn, an MP on the right of the CDU, who proposed the burqa ban.

‘I don’t want to encounter a burqa in this country. In that sense I am burqaphobic.’

The full-face veil has been banned in France since 2010.

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