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Almost 1,000 cars torched around France on New Year's Eve. Government: 'went particularly well'
Telegraph (UK) ^
| 02 January 2017
| Henry Samuel
Posted on 01/02/2017 2:09:50 PM PST by Lorianne
Vandals in France torched 945 parked cars over New Year's Eve in an arson rampage that has become a sinister annual "tradition" and amid a row over whether the government had sought to play down the figures.
According to the French interior ministry, the total of 945, which included cars that were either "totally destroyed" or "more lightly affected", amounted to a 17 per cent rise compared to last year.
Despite this, New Year's Eve "went off without any major incident", the interior ministry insisted in a statement, adding that there were only "a few troubles with public order",
In fact, police arrested 454 people over the night, 301 of whom were taken into custody.
On Sunday, the ministry had chosen to release a much lower figure of 650 cars torched, as this only indicated the number of vehicles "set on fire" and not those engulfed in the ensuing flames.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: carbecue; carbeque; france; frenchmuslims; globaljihad; jihadineurope; parisriots
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:09:50 PM PST
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
Wow! The French have no concern for this contribution to atmospheric carbon. /sarc.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:13:03 PM PST
by
jonrick46
(The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
To: Lorianne
Kind of like “Devil’s Night” in Detroit.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:13:42 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Lorianne
The French Government is just over-the-top STUPID! HA!
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:14:24 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Lorianne
Because nothing says Happy New Year like torching a few thousand cars.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:14:43 PM PST
by
LydiaLong
To: Lorianne
Citronella keeps pests away, Citroens do not.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:15:26 PM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: Lorianne
The yearly economic stimulus package.
Works just like breaking windows.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:16:53 PM PST
by
C210N
To: Lorianne
...the interior ministry insisted in a statement, adding that there were only "a few troubles with public order".
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:17:41 PM PST
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: C210N
9
posted on
01/02/2017 2:17:50 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Lorianne
Roasting christian eyeballs over a burning car is the new French delicacy.
To: Lorianne
Well that’s one way to get new cars sold. But why is France taking it so philosophically. Something that bad would be met with pitchforks and tar and feathers most any other places.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:18:47 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Lorianne
New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident”...
Yeah. My neighbor just set my car on fire about 10 minutes ago.
Spread to a few others. But no high end cars.
It’s not a “major incident”
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:20:03 PM PST
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: dfwgator
Did Devil’s Night in Detroit ever do anything to deserve being compared to this? Possibly, Devil’s Night in Detroit ought to be apologized to.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:20:06 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Lorianne
They hang horse thieves don’t they?
burning cars should be a hanging offense
Burn today, hang tomorrow
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:20:19 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
To: dp0622
Talk about Stockholm syndrome
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:20:37 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Lorianne
Obama tried to destroy the American auto industry in 2009.
But in France other muslims are doing their best to pump up new car sales.
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:20:40 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: bert
Maybe most of France’s cars are only worth half a horse?
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:21:04 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Lorianne
Hate to say it, but the French need the Germans to wake up and kick their butts again. It’s the only foreign policy they’ve understood with any degree of clarity for 200 years.
To: ameribbean expat
The Germans can’t even kick jihadi butts now. What says they would have the slightest interest in the French?
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:22:07 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: doug from upland
You wrote a ditty about this some years back didn’t you dfu?
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posted on
01/02/2017 2:24:07 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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