Vandals Only Torched 375 Cars In France Last Night
Slow night, I guess…
VANDALS torched 372 cars as France celebrated the New Year, down on the figure last year after a night the police described as “relatively calm”.
Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars.
There is usually an increase in the number of cars torched on New Year’s Eve compared to other days of the year.
“The night was relatively calm, without notable incident, there were very few direct clashes with the security forces,” said a spokesman for the national police.
The Interior Ministry said 372 vehicles had been burned - 144 in the Paris region and 228 in the rest of France. That was down from 397 last New Year’s Eve.
At the height of the 2005 riots as many as 1400 cars were attacked in overnight violence. In protests over President Nicolas Sarkozy election last May, demonstrators set fire to 730 vehicles.
Police had stepped up their presence on French streets in anticipation of the year-end celebrations and the sale of petrol in cans was banned in some places.
(news)
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Gotta wonder if some of those “angry YUTES” work for France’s “rapid/mass transit” systems … Heh!
Anyhow, I am sure the socialistic PTB at the French news agencies see THIS “decline” as more of a progress than our stupid MSM see what has been done in Iraq since the Surge as progress for the USA and our military.
January 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pmNo, not “Vandals”. Those were “a Germanic people that overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries a.d. and sacked Rome in 455.” These are Moslems, who want to do the same to France and Paris over the next few years.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pmits all a plot devised by the “confederation of paris scrap metal dealers”they all drive bentleys,my gandfather used to go to paris alot[horse racing]started going after the war,in the 1960’s he said “if them french buggers do’nt watch out the population of paris is going to be bloody broon”[brown]an ex miner with a colourfull turn of phrase,people ask where i bloody well get it from.
January 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pmAnother victim of the high price of oil.
January 1st, 2008 at 7:02 pmI see there a perfid conspiration of the bloody hell rostbeefs
KuKuktheist, your fucking right, you masturbate a lot too much, cause you can’t see your reality : UK esta la merda ! your fucking upper-class wants to emigrate over here, saying “France, your are patriots !”, not that I regret that, the kind of people are generallay well educated and bred, they “speak french” or try,and they spent their money here,
Brian H, I appreciate your history knowledge, but funny, it biased a bit at the end (see november, my comments on that), Can’t say it’s better in your Canada, yeah, heard of Toronto ?
drillanwr,
I am afraid Sarko drives the dance as far this communication though, the socialist PTB are inaudible these times, something tells me that they didn’t want to miss their winter holydays, or that Sarko hold the medias in his friends’ hands
anyway, these incidents are becoming has-been, or there are enough old cars left
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 amyup franchie my reality is slightly le merde ,my grandfather found france very nice ,chantilly horse race,prix de la arch,but that was his opinion in the late 60’s early70’s,the upper classes have always had residences in france,its the middle classes who are doing a runner to france but are going too get a shock when the property taxes get changed,i found paris very interesting even with a transport workers strike going on, strasburg i’m still not sure about,la joie de livre mon ami
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:41 amUKatheist,
I wouldn’t be sure that life is less expensive in UK, my 2 sons were there, the elders a few years, the other had enough after a few months ; yeah, they could get best wages because of the lower taxes, but goods, oil, food, habitation, cost them a lot more, not talking of their surroundings, ak Pakis dealing drugs etc…
When I read foreign papers, there are not more strikes in France than in any other western countries, counting the days, it’s because your papers always focuse on what’s going wrong in France !
each years, I get a few Englishs that want to settle in France, even not knowing the language, they have enough of your policies
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 amyeah they just happened to strike while i was there,our press is somewhat enthusiastic about some things but not about more important things,it sounds if your sons were working in the south,london perhaps which is a place i stay clear of,anywhere north of whitby yorkshire is ok though,plus the policies of our government make a sane man cry into his biere
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 amyes, London, and sheffield, more quiet though, but boring for a french expat, he can’t follow his work fellows, they drink too much beer there
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 amah yes our drinking
in some areas if you asked for wine or an aperitif you will get thrown out, i get funny looks from barstaff asking if they have any schnapps but some places now serve wine from a freshly opened bottle but you have to look for those,it is one aspect of french culture that seem to by growing over here,if i can get the local bakers to improve we may get better.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 amit’s not that he could find any wine or so if he had wanted some, just that the people there drink till they get drunk on week-ends and that they waste about 70 pounds of piss in the toilets ; weren’t the hooligans from that aera ?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 amI ment couldn’t find
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:54 amNo worries. They have Geico.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:13 pmthat’s right !
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:37 pmany council estate anywhere will have a population of hooligans its best too shout loudly and wave your arms wwhen coming across them same as bears really, had too google geico, now thats funny.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pmoops sstutter
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pmUKatheist, tout faux :
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geico
that’s it
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 ammerci beaucoup.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 am