France sees fall in New Year's Eve car-burnings (only 940 fires)

BBC ^ | 01/01/2015 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

Some 12% fewer cars were set alight on Wednesday compared with 2013, in a measure of what has effectively become an annual event in French suburbs since riots in 2005 in Paris and elsewhere.

The number of vehicles torched fell from 1,067 a year ago to 940, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Security was high in France overnight following a series of street attacks.

While the car-burning can be easily traced back to 2005, some correspondents say the idea of burning cars as a form of protest in France dates back into the 1990s.

[SkyDancer]

And they’re ecstatic over it???? They’re still burning cars!

[abclily]

Why is the world accepting this barbaric cult of Islam as the new normal?

[rlmorel]

[sasquatch]

Kinda like cash for clunkers. Only cheaper for the tax payers.

[PGR88]

They’re partied out.

[Politicalkiddo]

Only 940?

[Cboldt]

Hmm, running out of cars it seems.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Don’t understand these French youth. Jean-Pierre and Yves and friends go torch cars. They have nothing better to do???

[kingu]

Since this is the 9th or so year in a row that cars were torched, I wonder if the reduction is in a lessening of desire to burn the cars of infidels, or more a case of ‘I'm going to make sure my car is no where near these monsters’? Surely by this point, SOME French are standing up to defend their cars as well.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Its been a long time since the French won a fight.

Does the name ‘Napoleon’ ring a bell?

[MeshugeMikey]

depends on the neighborhood....

[Will88]

Lol, is it real, or is it photoshop?

[rlmorel]

Heh, I think it is real, but from a few years ago!

Like the nightly weather report...