Macron’s party moots banning headscarves in public for under-15s

President calls government meeting to address finding that Muslim Brotherhood poses threat to national cohesion'

Emmanuel Macron's centrist political party has suggested banning girls under 15 from wearing the Muslim headscarf in all public places, as the president chaired a high-level government meeting to discuss what it called political Islamism" in France.

The French president's office said he had asked ministers to come up with proposals before June to address the serious" findings of a report that Macron commissioned last year into the presence of the Muslim Brotherhood in France.