Angela Merkel calls for ban on burkas in Germany

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Angela Merkel has called for a burka ban after saying the full veil is not appropriate in Germany.

Merkel told her CDU party conference that wearing the burka should be outlawed ‘wherever that is legally possible’.

“The full-face veil is not acceptable in our country,” she told delegates in Essen, sparking rapturous applause. “It should be banned, wherever it is legally possible.”

Dutch politicians voted for a similar ban in the Netherlands recently, this covers education, public transportation and healthcare.

Previously, Merkel has been sceptical of calling for a ban on Islamic clothing, saying: ‘This is a question of finding the right political and legal balance.’

Merkel has been heavily criticised for her open door policy, with many blaming her for the mass sexual assaults in Cologne and several terror attacks by ISIS.

‘A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated,’ Ms Merkel told party delegates at a congress in the western city of Essen.

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