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. 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 country. Last year 1,193 vehicles were burned, according to official figures.
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Why?
It's become a bit of a tradition, Brixter.
There's some backgound to it here ...
http://www.france24.com/en/20140102-france-car-burning-new-year-tradition-urban-violence-media/
We just have illegal fireworks and the odd gunshot here in Southern California.
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