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Burning cars is something of a tradition in France but much disliked by the authorities and car owners, but encourage motorists hear seems to be on the decline.
Every New Year Eve nervous car owners across France to cross their fingers in hopes that they can start the new year with their vehicle intact.
That's because of a long French tradition that sees young people in parts of cities torching dozens of cars.
However new statistics agency data on official crime of France ONDRP reveal that the number of cars burned each year has dropped 20 percent since 2010.
That was the good news for car owners and insurance companies.
The bad news is that in 2015, there were still some 39,200 vehicles torched in the country.
The main combustion season is in July and August, especially on the day of the Bastille on July 14 th when youth mark the annual national festival with their own fireworks.
The main reason for the fall according ONDRP is that the media take less interest now to the cars mass combustion, which means that there may be less thrill for arsonists.
Some 20 vehicles were torched in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, AFP recently.
The authorities have failed to publish the number of cars torched the New Year's Eve after discovering that a district by district breakdown fueled destructive competition between rival gangs.
Added to this is that the additional police are regularly deployed in sensitive areas on specific nights of the year to try to prevent fires.
The statistics also showed that the most affected by the phenomenon departments were Corsica Corsica, Isere southeast including Grenoble, and Oise, north of Paris.
The rural areas of France are much less affected than urban areas.
most affected car owners are usually in the toughest neighborhoods up.
The custom to put the vehicles land on New Year's Eve would begin to the east around Strasbourg, in the 1990s, in the poorest areas of the city.
He was then quickly adopted by young people in cities across the country.
Cars are often burned whenever there is an outbreak of social unrest, as seen in the 2005 riots, when hundreds of vehicles were burned.
The ONDRP Christophe Schulz told the newspaper Le Parisien that there are various reasons that young people are burning cars.
vehicle fires are often associated with a backdrop of riots and urban violence may also be a game to break the monotony, or it might be motivated by revenge after a violent arrest Or it could just be to get rid of a car used in a crime or as an insurance scam.
So while car owners could host the fall, they still face some sleepless nights this summer.
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