New Years in France .. About 60 cars caught fire and one person was killed by fireworks



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France celebrated the New Year without a riot on the Champs Elysees in the capital Paris, which was surrounded by strict security measures, but other areas were set ablaze 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, the television channel “France 3” and the magazine “Le Point” reported 60 cars set on fire and arrests.

In Bufzheim, near the city of Strasbourg, in the province of “Ba-Rennes”, a 25-year-old man was killed in an explosion of fireworks that separated his head from his body and his friend was injured, and 3 other people They were injured in nearby towns due to related accidents as well. Fireworks.

In Lyuron, 2,000 people violated health restrictions and threw a noisy party, unimpressed with the security forces, as several of them faced stones with the gendarmes, resulting in minor injuries to 3 gendarmes, according to France Info TV, and one of his 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.

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