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'Only' 1,067 vehicles set ablaze on New Year’s Eve in France
telegraph ^

Posted on 01/01/2014 2:17:37 PM PST by traumer

The much lamented tradition of torching cars to mark the arrival of the new year claimed more than 10 per cent fewer vehicles this year

By French standards, it was a peaceful New Year’s Eve. Only 1,067 cars and vans were destroyed by arson, a “significant” reduction of more than 10 per cent compared to the number of vehicles set ablaze last year, according to Manuel Valls, the Interior Minister. All things considered, it was a “positive result”, Mr Valls told a press conference on Wednesday. He said he regretted the deaths of three people in knife attacks in Paris and in eastern and southern France. Car-torching has been adopted as a modern New Year tradition by some young revellers in France. The practice reportedly began in earnest amongst youths - often in poor neighbourhoods - in the 1990s in the region around Strasbourg in the east of the coutnry.

Last year 1,193 vehicles were burned, according to official figures.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 75percentincometax; europeanunion; france; frenchmuslims; nye; yoots
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1 posted on 01/01/2014 2:17:37 PM PST by traumer
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“Youths” = Muslims.


2 posted on 01/01/2014 2:19:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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ONLY - sorry


3 posted on 01/01/2014 2:20:27 PM PST by traumer
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Sounds like the old “Devil’s Night” in Motown except substituting cars for houses.


4 posted on 01/01/2014 2:22:37 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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I wonder if a group of used car salesmen are bankrolling the muzzies to do this....


5 posted on 01/01/2014 2:25:27 PM PST by Veggie Todd (I don't always talk to Obama voters, but when I do I ask for Large Fries.)
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To: traumer

Having owned a both a Renault and a Peugeot, I can understand the french desired to burn cars...


6 posted on 01/01/2014 2:26:03 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Veggie Todd

It’s the French version of “Cash for Clunkers” LOL


7 posted on 01/01/2014 2:26:18 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: traumer

Yoots.


8 posted on 01/01/2014 2:28:19 PM PST by 867V309 (Obama- he's just crazy enough to do it.)
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To: traumer

The logic of any nation importing this rabble is beyond me. The West is destroying itself.


9 posted on 01/01/2014 2:28:22 PM PST by volunbeer (We must embrace austerity or austerity will embrace us)
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To: traumer

I one hadn’t read all those stories about car burning in France in earlier years, one would find no indication whatever that these are Muslims celebrating their New Year.

Presumably the knifings, too.


10 posted on 01/01/2014 2:28:30 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: traumer

"NLY'"


11 posted on 01/01/2014 2:29:20 PM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: null and void

I learned my lesson with just a Renault ‘Fuego’. Never again...


12 posted on 01/01/2014 2:29:39 PM PST by brooklin
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This is a major blow to the auto industry there. I presume they rely on more like tens of thousands of burnt and trashed autos to stimulate their economy. [the BrokenGlassParable on a large scale]


13 posted on 01/01/2014 2:32:53 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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Only 1072? Surprised they didn’t go for 1096.


14 posted on 01/01/2014 2:34:02 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: traumer

The cars were murdered because they were infidels.


15 posted on 01/01/2014 2:40:11 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: traumer

Youts at it again I see!


16 posted on 01/01/2014 2:42:03 PM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: traumer

If I was French, I’d be advocating for shoot to kill to put an end to this nonsense.


17 posted on 01/01/2014 2:44:38 PM PST by rbg81
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I guess the muzzies can’t aford matches anymore with the French economy tanking even faster than the US economy.


18 posted on 01/01/2014 2:49:23 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

I’d heard you can’t air condition those little foreign jobs.

75 percent income tax, plus a big jump in auto insurance rates, yeah, I want to live there.

Thanks traumer.


19 posted on 01/01/2014 2:53:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Only 1,067 cars and vans were destroyed by arson,

Well I'm glad to see they're finally coming to their senses over there.

:/

20 posted on 01/01/2014 2:53:08 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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