Either heard it wrong, or they reported it wrong......
5000 is about right. When they were warming up, it was only 200-300 cars per night. They've only gotten up to the 1300 level recently.
And up to November, they had already torched 25,000 cars in France.
About the dead man: he was trying to put out a fire in his trash can. The "youth" wanted to see the trash can burn. He interrupted their amusement in watching a trash can burn.
This is where liberal nihilism leads to.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174745,00.html
KEY POINTS
-"France, with some 5 million Muslims, has the largest Islamic population in Western Europe."
-"Arsonists burned two schools and a bus in the central city of Saint-Etienne and its suburbs, and two people were injured in the bus attack."
-"Churches were set ablaze in northern Lens and southern Sete, he said. The extent of damage was not immediately clear."
-"There have been 4,700 cars burned in France since the rioting began, and 1,200 suspects have been detained at least temporarily, Gaudin said."
-"In Colombes in suburban Paris, youths pelted rocks at a bus, sending a 13-month-old child to the hospital with a head injury, Hamon said, while a daycare center was burned in Saint-Maurice, another Paris suburb."
-The violence has spread to 300 cities.
-Belgium and Germany are also experiencing "anger from disaffected youths" utilizing the same tactics.
-No mosques have been damaged, torched or desecrated by the "disaffected muslim youths"....