Posted on 01/03/2018 7:56:43 PM PST by blam
Car burnings have become a tradition across France over New Year’s with the latest figures showing an increase in arson, but some experts claim the motive behind the attacks is simple boredom. Approximately 1,031 vehicles were set on fire on the night of December 31st and the early hours of the morning of January 1st, up from last year’s 935. The arson attacks have remained a constant feature over New Year’s, Bastille Day celebrations in the summer, and during incidents of civil unrest.
Many have attempted to try and make sense of why the arson attacks keep occurring year after year, often in so-called “Sensitive Urban Zones ” (ZUS).
French Sociologist Michel Wieviorka claims that the acts of vandalism are “above all, playful” and that they do not have a political dimension. “It is very easy, technically, to set a vehicle on fire and run away immediately,” he said and added that there is not much risk of arrest.
According to Wieviorka, the car burnings began in the 1980s and 1990s in Strasbourg and are primarily carried out by urban youth, often from immigrant backgrounds but not exclusively.
“Some also said that these fires were partly caused by people who actually wanted to get rid of a car, get an insurance premium while the vehicle was worthless. But in this case, why would he do it on this occasion and not another? It’s not a very solid reasoning,” he added.
Car insurance premiums in France tend to be much more expensive in areas that see a high level of car burnings than in those which do not.
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It's all baffling.
Not hard to understand the thinking behind the Maginot Line, is it?
Liars.
Is France a civilized country?
Destroying many hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal property is “playful” ?
Honestly, they thought it was football game
“PLAYFUL”?????????????????............LOLOLOLOLOL
Says it all.
Hahaha - look my car is is flames! Those little rascals...
nothing cuter than African Muslims at play.
These socialists are so evil.
The LIB ethic revolves around “DESTROY”...at all levels...at all times.
lets see how platful it is if they torch all a police stations squads, or all the cars on a dealership lot.
just playful.
shoot the experts. they are either idiots or liars.
Translation...
Nous abandonnons!
.
(We surrender.)
Hey muslims,crash the elite playground and go be “ playful” where they live..
“Boys will be boys, eh?”
Yutes will be Yutes.
Hmmm....growing up back in the 60’s, if I had decided be “playful” and set a fire in so much as a trash can, my father would have put the fear of God right back in me. I would still have lingering pain after all these years. :)
In France, it all started with the “Soixante-Retards” back in 1968.
In the UAE right now finishing up a temp work assignment and I can tell you these guys here don’t put up with any of the crap going on in Europe with misbehaving immigrants. This is no news to most Freepers, but the Western world for some reason does not get (or don’t care or worst yet, wants to see the “evil” Christian civilization destroyed) that Islam is using demographics and the dregs of its society as the “shock troops” to spread Sharia there. I think only a miracle revival of Judeo-Christian values will save Western Europe from becoming dhimmi nations (in effect, most already are). Have more hope for Eastern Europe but that is not much to be thankful for. Over 500 years ago, Constineople was lost, how long before Rome falls?
Rome fell with the assent of Francis ...
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