Posted on 01/09/2018 9:57:25 AM PST by John Semmens
In France, burning cars on New Year’s Eve is becoming more popular. This year’s toll of 1,031 vehicles torched, predominately by Muslims residing in the country, topped last year’s 935. French Sociologist Michel Wieviorka maintains that we should consider these arsonists as “playful rather than criminal in nature. The vandals are mostly young men of foreign heritage coming from countries where automobiles are rare. On the one hand, there is a genuine and warranted expression of rage at a society in which cars are available to some, but not all. They are hitting out at the injustice of a system that distributes these vehicles based on the ability to pay for them.”
“On the other hand, setting vehicles on fire and running away seems like great fun,” Wieviorka observed. “And the risk of arrest is minimal. Burning cars are such a normal event on New Year’s Eve now that police shrug them off. For example, last year, when more than 900 bars were set ablaze the Interior Ministry reported that the New Year’s celebrations had gone off ‘without incident.’ Rather than get ourselves worked up over it, we should adapt to the cultural enrichment these immigrants are bringing to France.”
Meanwhile, a fire at the Chappaqua home of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is reported to have destroyed all of the personal emails from her tour of duty at the State Department. A heartbroken Mrs. Clinton expressed regrets that “my decision to delete these precious memories from the official files I turned over when I left now means that there is no way to recover the correspondence leading up to my daughter’s wedding or the heart-felt chats I had with my yoga buddies and Clinton Foundation donors.”
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Arsonists burned to celebrate New Years.
Stop publishing fake news. Nobody is interested
You just swiped and rewrote and article from APF.com.
Except I searched and couldn't find any articles with keywords “new years day fires” ...
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