{"id":1179988,"date":"2022-01-02T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T16:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1179988"},"modified":"2022-01-02T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T16:04:19","slug":"france-874-cars-torched-and-441-arrested-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-874-cars-torched-and-441-arrested-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"France: 874 Cars Torched and 441 Arrested On New Year&#039;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrance-874-cars-torched-and-441-arrested-on-new-years-eve%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1179988&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">On New Year\u2019s Eve, French authorities report that 874 cars were set on fire and 441 people were arrested as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin noted the figures were a decrease from prior years.<\/p>\n<p>The Interior Minister stated on Saturday that a total of 648 fires across the country caused 874 cars to be burned, a figure down from New Year\u2019s Eve in 2019 when the country saw<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/01\/12\/france-2019-saw-record-1457-cars-burned-new-years-eve\/\"> a record 1,457 cars<\/a> set on fire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThese acts led the police and gendarmes to carry out 441 arrests (376 in 2019) and to take into custody 381 individuals (314 in 2019),\u201d Minister Darmanin said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GDarmanin\/status\/1477242257476567041?s=20\">statement<\/a> released on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">France saw 1,457 vehicles set on fire across New Year&#8217;s Eve, surpassing the previous record of 1,290 vehicles in the previous year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IglXksg0MR\">https:\/\/t.co\/IglXksg0MR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1216707466790043652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe night of New Year\u2019s Eve saw a decrease in violence thanks to the [interventions] of the police. Thank you to the nearly 130,000 police, gendarmes and civil security personnel who helped and ensured the safety of the French last night,\u201d Darmanin wrote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the region of&nbsp;\u00cele-de-France, which includes the city of Paris and its various suburbs, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/faits-divers\/des-guet-apens-un-policier-blesse-et-186-voitures-brulees-durant-la-saint-sylvestre-en-ile-de-france-01-01-2022-EDGBYRAYM5F7RAXDMOO3FNGRUQ.php\">186 cars were set on fire<\/a> and one police officer was injured after being ambushed by local \u2018youths\u2019, as the French media euphemistically calls them.<\/p>\n<p>Julien Le Cam,&nbsp;departmental delegate of the Alliance police union, commented on the anti-police violence in the department of Yvelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leparisien.fr\/faits-divers\/nuit-du-nouvel-an-dans-les-yvelines-de-nombreux-incidents-un-policier-blesse-et-36-voitures-brulees-01-01-2022-EUA4YPAH5JE47G2UJEOD77N5DU.php#xtor=AD-1481423553\">saying<\/a>, \u201cthese acts of violence affected all the districts of the department throughout the night. No very serious facts have been noted, although I regret that a staff member is injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyonmag.com\/article\/120140\/metropole-de-lyon-pres-d-une-centaine-de-vehicules-incendies-la-nuit-de-la-saint-sylvestre\">a hundred vehicles<\/a> were set on fire in Lyon and the areas around the city, with the low number of touched cars being credited to significant deployment of police officers as well as the weather, which had rained on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>In the western city of Nantes, 41 vehicles were set ablaze on Friday night, with most of the violence concentrated in the areas of&nbsp;Malakoff, Clos-Toreau and rue Samuel-de-Champlain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19326202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237493007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19326202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237493007-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A picture taken in Strasbourg\u2019s Cronenbourg suburb, eastern France, on January 1, 2022 shows the wreckage of a car set ablaze during New Year\u2019s eve. (Photo: FREDERICK FLORIN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A total of eleven people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/pays-de-la-loire\/nantes-44000\/nantes-tirs-de-mortier-vehicules-incendies-et-neuf-interpellations-pour-le-nouvel-an-c8ac2dbe-6ad7-11ec-8a2c-3a25de105c9b\">were arrested<\/a>&nbsp;in the area, including a father and son found with a hundred mortar-style fireworks they were allegedly attempting to sell to locals out of the back of their car.<\/p>\n<p>Mortar fireworks have become popular in France as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/28\/three-arrested-after-30-minute-long-fireworks-attack-on-police-station\/\">method of attacking police officers<\/a> as the fireworks can be easily directed without harming the user.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 87 cars were set on fire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francebleu.fr\/infos\/faits-divers-justice\/87-voitures-incendiees-a-strasbourg-pendant-la-nuit-du-nouvel-1641026623\">Strasbourg<\/a> and its surrounding area, with 25 of the vehicles catching fire due to the spread of nearby fires that had been set. Police arrested 30 people, including six under the age of 16.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, French authorities report that 874 cars were set on fire and 441 people were arrested as Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin noted the figures were a decrease &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}