Luxembourg, 24/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said on Friday 24 October that he was opposed to the establishment of body scanners in airports. “I do not want the police running the risk of being accused of voyeurism”, Mr Schäuble explained during a press meeting on the occasion of an EU home ministers' meeting in Luxembourg. He spoke of passenger “dignity”. The scanners would show passengers naked for the detection of weapons and explosives that cannot be detected using traditional methods. “If we can manage to devise scanners that do not give images, then we can use them”, he said. The French minister for home affairs, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said: “We must be more determined in using every new technology possible to combat terrorists and major criminals as they are perfectly aware of how to use them and are often ahead of us on this”. The European Commission wants by the end of the year to propose a project to regulate the use of such scanners which, for now, are only used in an experimental way (EUROPE 9767 and 9768). “The position expressed after the experimental trials should reflect the dual concern of protecting individual freedoms and that of collective security”, Ms Alliot-Marie stressed.