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New Year's Eve in France proved to be quite a busy time for the country's emergency services with nearly 650 cars burned and nearly 500 people were arrested, the Interior Ministry revealed in a statement.
The celebrations of the New Year's night passed without major incident, however, there were problems with public order, the statement said.
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Vandals torched 650 cars parked in an event that has already turned into a sort of annual ritual of New Year in France.
The number of cars burned shows that this phenomenon, as unacceptable as it is, continues to be a total of 650 cars were torched while last year there were 602 such cases, the statement continued.
Several police officers were injured overnight in various parts of the country in Nice, revelers threw objects at two policemen while a firefighter in the department of Ain was also injured while trying to extinguish flames from a burning car.
I regret that once again, there were too many cases of security forces were hit by projectiles, or have experienced abuse or insults, the Interior Minister Bruno Roux said, adding that the attacks against the security forces would be studied.
Although the number of cars burned increased this year compared to 602 last year on fire, the ministry insisted that there was an overall decline in car burnings.
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Over the past five years, the number of vehicles burned fell by 20, the ministry said.
Le Roux, who revealed the figures, has been criticized for speaking only direct arson addition to 650 cars were burned deliberately, there were 295 other vehicles caught fire and were destroyed, according to data from Interior Ministry, quoted by Europe 1.
Police arrested 454 people overnight, with 301 accused of various offenses.
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In 2016, French police detained 622 people during the festivities around 300 of them were charged later, some 800 cars were torched compared to 940 in 2015.
The practice of putting cars land on New Year's Eve as a symbol of protest have originated in the 90s in the poorest regions of the country is around Strasbourg Burning cars is used as a tactic to express discontent social.
The largest number of these incidents in France were recorded between 2005 and 2009. In 2010 and 2011, the Ministry of Interior refused to release figures, drawing criticism that the figures would have been too embarrassing for the government.
According to Claude Rochet, former government adviser and professor at the Institute of Public Management at the University of Aix-Marseille, not only are the authorities who play in the scale of car burnings, but are powerless to prevent they do not allow directly, but they lack the ability to stop, because the police have been instructed not to provoke the young, Rochet said RT Thus, once they are arrested, they are arrested, they are immediately released so these people fear nothing, and police forces are exhausted by the state of emergency, they are exhausted the problem of terrorism, and they have no time and no strength to devote to these so-called minor events such as burning cars.
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