Hawzah News Agency-Christian Schulz, manager of a Seekrug restaurant in Bielefeld, western Germany, reportedly asked the woman to remove the full-face veil as she sat during an annual light festival.

The woman is said to have refused, at which point Mr Schulz reportedly expelled her from the restaurant.

The restaurant manager was subsequently subject to a barrage of criticism on the restaurant's Facebook page, which he has since deleted.

Mr Schulz had said he ordered the woman to leave because of fears the full-face veil made other guests uncomfortable during a busy event.

Since the incident, Mr Schulz changed the profile picture on the page to a photo of him with a Ghanaian chef who works in the premises.

The incident comes less than a month after a Muslim student was forbidden from wearing her full niqab in classes by a German court in one of the first rulings of its kind.

Laws around wearing the niqab or burqa in public in Germany have become a widely debated topic after two terror attacks were carried out by people linked to Daesh in July.

There is no national law in Germany that restricts the wearing of the niqab, which covers all facial features except the eyes, but German states have the power to change their laws locally.