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France sees fall in New Year's Eve car-burnings (only 940 fires)
BBC ^ | 01/01/2015 | staff

Posted on 01/04/2015 2:01:43 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arson; carfire; france; newyear
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Car-burning has become a method of protest in France in recent years but for some reason the BBC has no description of the perps or what they might be protesting.
1 posted on 01/04/2015 2:01:43 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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Something tells me if 940 cars were burned in America that there’d be at least one dead muzzie in the mix.


2 posted on 01/04/2015 2:03:35 PM PST by atomic_dog
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To: Kid Shelleen

Probably related to all the Franco-Euro millionaires that abandoned the country due to the 75% income tax, meaning less people to torch cars.

They recently repealed the tax, so these torchers will be back in droves next year.


3 posted on 01/04/2015 2:04:12 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is what happens in a disarmed society.


4 posted on 01/04/2015 2:04:22 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Well those Renaults and Peugeots aren’t exactly hot sellers to that’s a way to stimulate demand...


5 posted on 01/04/2015 2:05:19 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: Kid Shelleen

many of the car burners flew to Iraq to fight with ISIS.


6 posted on 01/04/2015 2:08:39 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Kid Shelleen
The number of vehicles torched fell from 1,067 a year ago to 940, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Wow, now that's real progress. The Moslems must be 12% less PO'd than the previous year.

7 posted on 01/04/2015 2:08:47 PM PST by Will88
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While the car-burning can be easily traced back to 2005

This sounds like an interesting new tradition that's worth celebrating because it's very diverse.

8 posted on 01/04/2015 2:10:22 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Sort of like “Devil’s Night” in Detroit, but with a Euro accent.


9 posted on 01/04/2015 2:12:07 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: C210N

Not less people to torch cars, but less cars to torch. Our news here in NJ was proudly proclaiming that Camden NJ had less crime than last year; the last time I was there (several years ago) it was already undergoing “Detroitification” (depopulation). Crime fell because there are less people and businesses to prey upon.


10 posted on 01/04/2015 2:12:25 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Maybe they are protesting because they are not surrendering fast enough to Islam.


11 posted on 01/04/2015 2:13:46 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I wonder if the “hands up don’t shoot” thugs will start this.


12 posted on 01/04/2015 2:13:57 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Gee,I Wonder Why???????????????


13 posted on 01/04/2015 2:23:49 PM PST by bandleader
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To: Kid Shelleen

France could use some”Burkha Burnings”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 01/04/2015 2:24:35 PM PST by bandleader
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To: atomic_dog

Something tells me if 940 cars were burned in America that there’d be at least one dead muzzie in the mix.

That’s one dead muzzie per car.

Fixed now.


15 posted on 01/04/2015 2:41:57 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Kid Shelleen

yeah but they’re French cars so they’re only suitable for burning


16 posted on 01/04/2015 2:43:26 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Kid Shelleen

if the BBC keeps covering up for the IslamoNazi invasion of Europe, including UK, it is either beause they are afraid of being killed by same.... or else because they’ve sold out for money, or both.
Meanwhile, the invasion of EU/UK continues full speed ahead.

USA has same problem, so has Australia, and...

it appears that not one Western or Christian nation wants to survive


17 posted on 01/04/2015 2:48:13 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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In France the muzzies flipped 940 cars and torched them. Meanwhile, across the channel who knows how many teenage British girls in Bradford, Sheffield and Manchester got knocked up involuntarily on New Years Eve by 50 year old Pakis. At least the French know on the morning of Jan. 1st the extent of the damage. Will take the Brits a few months to figure it out.


18 posted on 01/04/2015 2:53:43 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: Kid Shelleen

Wow! Is that considered progress? France is truly an occupied nation.


19 posted on 01/04/2015 2:58:52 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution)
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To: ameribbean expat

oh my. awful....


20 posted on 01/04/2015 3:09:21 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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