Hundreds of cars torched overnight (guess which country...)

Reuters ^ | 1/1/2007

[StoneGiant]

Hundreds of cars torched overnight

From correspondents in Paris

January 01, 2007 10:18pm

Article from: Reuters


VANDALS set fire to about 400 cars overnight and police said they arrested more than 250 people, as violence marred France's New Year celebrations.

However, a police spokesman said there were fewer problems than in 2005, when youths attacked trains in the Paris region and southeast of the country.

25,000 police were on duty throughout the country during the night, including 4500 in Paris, where the authorities banned fireworks and firecrackers.

Police said that they had arrested 258 people nationwide by early morning, including two children aged eight and 10 who set fire to dustbins in the eastern city of Strasbourg.

Three children aged between 10 and 12 were arrested in a Paris suburb after they were caught carrying cans of petrol.

In the capital itself, almost 400,000 people welcomed in the New Year on the Champs Elysees and at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, where no serious incidents were reported.

Setting cars on fire has become a regular event in France during New Year's Eve celebrations, especially in the deprived suburbs that ring many cities.

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“Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil.”

[tkathy]

Appeasing these future mass murderers will only make the killing start sooner.

France needs a Giuliani.

[redpoll]

I almost screamed at the television tonight when the announcer babe said "vandals" burned cars across France. The word is a perfect analogy for our time - technically true, yet designed to hide the truth. Aargghh.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

What happens when you open the borders to millions of creatures who want to kill you.

[Kenton]

Just wondering how this stacks up against "Devil's Night" in Detroit...

[evad]

Mormon's again??

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Well, someone has to do something to keep the French auto industry alive! think of this as planned obsolescense by fire.

[fatrat]

the price of auto insurance in that area must really suck.

[Graymatter]

I almost screamed at the television tonight when the announcer babe said "vandals" burned cars across France.

Was she dressed in the stola and palla of a Roman woman?

[sono]

Must be the work of those disaffected Youts again.

[sgtbono2002]

Some countries use Fireworks to issue in the New Year. France burns cars. I bet the Fire Insurance rates on vehicles in France is atrocious.

Paris the city of Lights and auto fires LMAO.

[sphinx]

No, I think it's the Moslem Festival of Lights. A cultural celebration to be honored as such.

[agere_contra]

France's "Auto de fe"

[C210N]

Frenchie cars being blowed up in France, and Frenchie cars blowing themselves up in Tehran. Burning cars coming to a town near you! and me!

[Peach]

We should start complaining to the news services when they mis-identify these perpetrators of violence as "youths". They're Muslims and the sooner the media starts identifying them as such, the sooner people will get what the Muslims are all about.

[bray]

Well at least those "vandals" were burning cars rather than raping women this time.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Lee'sGhost]

"France needs a Giuliani."

France needs a Guillotine.

[Candor7]

Yes, er well, Poof! And all that.

Yes, apparently French Automobiles are designed to burn. Accordingly, Iranian produced Pugeots sold in Iraq self immolate

'Self igniting' Iran cars worry police

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761038/posts?page=48#48

Its a French/Muslim thing.

[evad]

Moslem Festival of Lights

Heh...yeah, it does light the place up well.

[DB]

Frenchie cars just like to burn...

Just too hot to handle...