Paris # 39; Suburbs Are Burning
Hundreds of cars torched in French tradition of the New Year.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday that 1,193 vehicles were torched by young French overnight in what has become a dubious tradition New Year's Eve.
Hundreds of empty cars parked in the flames go up in France every New Year's Eve fire by young revelers, a tradition that many remained intact lamented this year with 1,193 vehicles burned, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday .
His announcement was the first time in three years that the figures were released on Conservative government of former President Nicolas Sarkozy had decided to stop publishing in order to reduce crime - and not play into the hands of car burning youth who try to excel.
current socialist government of France decided otherwise, saying that the total transparency of the best method, and the rate of burning cars apparently remained stable on 31 December 2009, the latest figure available to the public, 1,147 vehicles were torched.
Like many countries, France saw cars burnt during the year for many reasons, including gang hiding clues for their crimes and people who make false insurance claims.
But the car-fire has taken a new step in France when it became a way to mark the arrival of the new year practice would have started seriously among youth - often in poor neighborhoods - in the 1990s in the area of Strasbourg in eastern France.
He also became a voice of protest during the fire unrest by young desperate housing projects that swept France in autumn 2005 At the time, the police account 8.810 vehicles burned in less than three weeks.
Yet even then, cars are burnt in large cities such as Paris, and that remained the case this New Year Eve Minister Valls said the suburban area of Paris from the Seine-Saint-Denis, where the 2005 unrest was started, led the nation for cars burned, followed by two eastern regions around Strasbourg.
For some, the decision to tell the public how many cars were burned on the eve of the New Year is a mistake.
Bruno Beschizza, national secretary for security issues within the UMP party of Nicolas Sarkozy, told the iTele television that the publication of figures that motivates young people to commit such crimes, we know that neighborhoods are competing, he said center Gang rivalry can torch the more cars, the claims made on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, he said.
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