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Setting fire to cars during the New Year’s celebration in France. Photo: Archive.
France celebrated the New Year without a riot on the Champs Elysees in the capital Paris, which was unusually surrounded by tight security measures, but other regions were burned by dozens of vehicles.
Some 200 policemen have secured the Champs Elysees, the front of the French capital, alone, which for many years has been used to celebrating the New Year amid riots and violence that make the avenue after the holidays end up as a battlefield with heavy material losses and arrests.
The Champs-Elysees were handed over this year, while other cities such as Strasbourg and its surroundings were not saved, where the curfew imposed from eight o’clock at night was violated throughout the country, in the framework of the prevention of Corona , and groups of youths vandalized a number of properties, including the burning of 30 cars. As reported by the French newspaper “Le Figaro”, citing security sources, while the television channel “France 3” and the magazine “Le Point” reported 60 cars burned and arrests.
In Bufzheim, near the city of Strasbourg, in the region of “Ba-Rennes”, a 25-year-old man was killed in an explosion of fireworks that separated his head from his body, his friend was injured and 3 other people were injuries in nearby towns also due to related accidents. Fireworks.
In Lyuron, 2,000 people violated sanitary restrictions and threw a loud party, unimpressed by the security forces. Several of them faced stones with the gendarmes, which caused minor injuries to 3 gendarmes, according to France Info TV, and one of their vehicles was burned.
In general, the French authorities consider that the New Year celebrations, for which 100,000 police and gendarmes were recruited to secure throughout the country, compared to 20,000 on normal nights, were less violent and had fewer incidents compared to previous years , according to the French Interior Ministry.
In 2019, for comparison, hundreds of cars caught fire across the country, reaching more than 1,000 according to some sources.
Source: French TV channel “France Info” / French TV channel “France 3” / French magazine “Le Point” / Russian agency “Sputnik (ARB)”
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