Interior Minister Manuel Valls said that 1,067 vehicles were torched by French youths overnight in what has become a dubious New Year’s Eve tradition. The number is a 10.6% reduction over last year.
Gee, I wonder if the number of burned vehicles was down because many car owners now know better than to park their cars in Muslim-heavy areas? What does it say about a city when authorities are joyous at the news of “only” 1,067 torched cars?
France24 It happens every year and the unveiling of the night’s tally is as traditional as New Year’s Eve itself: Muslim residents of France’s notorious suburbs go on a car-burning spree.
Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year’s Eve, set afire by young rangy Muslims, a much lamented tradition that remained intact this year with 1,193 vehicles burned, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Tuesday.
His announcement was the first time in three years that such figures have been released. The conservative government of former President Nicolas Sarkozy had decided to stop publishing them in a bid to reduce the crime — and not play into the hands of car-torching youths who try to outdo each other.
France’s current Socialist government decided otherwise, deeming total transparency the best method, and the rate of burned cars apparently remained steady. On Dec. 31, 2009, the last public figure available, 1,147 vehicles were burned.
Vehicle arson – mostly confined to disadvantaged suburbs near big cities – has become an embarrassing tradition of bringing in the New Year in France. Furthermore, the public expects to be informed exactly how many cars were set alight, in what could be seen from abroad as a unique and bizarre annual ritual. Valls was quick to point out that there had been a 10% drop in the number of incidents on last year.
The infamous custom can be traced to the northeastern city of Strasbourg that straddles France’s border with Germany. Strasbourg, which hosts thousands of tourists who flock to the city for its renowned Christmas market, first began to be blighted by holiday season vehicle arson in the late 1980s. But the phenomenon exploded to alarming levels during the 1990s.
The year 1997 proved to be decisive. After that, the national media descended en mass on the bustling picturesque city following a spree of car burnings, as young Muslim vandals from rival housing estates began “competing” for the media spotlight.
Local government official Patrice Magnier said at the time he saw a clear “correlation between the media focus on the phenomenon and the rise in incidents.” Despite efforts by the police and local bodies, the tradition has not been stamped out. Rather, it has spread across France, with a new peak in New Year’s car burning between 2005 and 2009.
Car burning is not limited to New Year celebrations in France. Bastille Day, France’s national holiday on July 14, also sees a peak in incidents.
Observers who have studied urban violence in France say youths from poor communities, burn cars as a form of protest against the state, who they blame for their lack of economic opportunities. It is also a direct way for them to defy law enforcement, and provoke confrontations with police.
The spike in New Year’s Eve car arson starting in the mid-2000s is likely related to the wave of urban unrest that gripped France in October and November 2005.
Following the controversial death of two Muslim teens in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, young men from disadvantaged districts across the country clashed with police for several nights, burning public buildings and dozens of vehicles each night.
Blaming media coverage and the obsession for figures, Valls’ two predecessors at the interior ministry decided not to give figures on the seasonal wave of destruction in 2010 and 2011. However, this move also prompted criticism from some corners. Opponents said that the ministers were more than willing to share the number of arrests on New Year’s Eve and were in fact only hiding those figures that could prove embarrassing for the government.
Valls, a Socialist, reinstated the practice of revealing the car burning numbers last year, and pledged to do the same in 2013 as the year drew to a close. This year’s festivities showed the troubling tradition remains widespread.
From last year:
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surely; they are losing their country to islamo fascist viral civilizational jihad…. chaos
We have a war on our hands. Unless we have already handed over our entire security infrastructure to our Muslim enemies we need to start marching. Once Isis emerges from the sewers then it will be too late.
These suburban “youth” have no access to anything – why? Their behavior. France is in a terrible economic state. Acting like a perpetual Palestinian won’t help.
Bring them back to their own jahiliyah country. The land full of blood shed and polygamers
Canada should ban ALL muslim immigrations before its to late
Thanks Sheila for sending this analysis of French permanent “bordel” in our suburbs.
Le problème provient principalement :
– de la démission des parents après les évènements de mai 68 …
– des carences de notre système éducatif où, “morale” et “instruction civique” n’étaient pratiquement plus au programme. D’ailleurs, nous sommes passés de l’ “Instruction publique” dont le rôle était d’enseigner à, l’ “Éducation nationale” qui se voit ainsi confier un rôle d’éducateur autrefois à la charge des parents …,
– de la suppression par Chirac du Service militaire qui faisait l’amalgame entre les jeunes des différentes classes de la société et leur apprenait à vivre en communauté en imposant des règles de vie basées sur la discipline et le respect de l’autre.
– de la montée de l’islamisme radical ( le point de non-retour est déjà dépassé … )facilitée par la lâcheté de nos politiciens qui ont besoin des voix musulmanes sans lesquelles ils ne pourraient garder leurs sièges et leurs prébendes.
– de la désinformation permanente pratiquée par nos médias “aux ordres” et en général de gauche …
– etc … etc …
Toutefois, le reste de l’Europe occidentale n’est pas épargné par le fléau islamiste, à des degrés différents cependant, en fonction du courage de leurs dirigeants …
Merci de prier pour la France.
A.Rauscher 82 ans Montlevicq France.
Alain, this is second and last time I will ask you not to post in French unless you include an English translation with it.
Merci à Sheila pour cet envoi relatif au “bordel” permanent qui règne dans nos banlieues..
Causes probables :
– Démission des parents amplifiée par les évènements de mai 68.
– Carences de notre système éducatif où ” Instruction Civique ” et ” Morale ” n’étaient quasiment plus au programme. D’ailleurs, le fait d’avoir changé l'”Instruction publique ” en ” Éducation nationale ” impose à nos enseignants, un rôle éducatif autrefois dévolu aux parents.
– Suppression par Chirac du “Service militaire” qui faisait l’amalgame entre les différentes classes sociales et imposait des règles de vie communes basées sur la discipline et le respect de l’autre.
– Montée de l’islamisme radical ( le point de non-retour est maintenant dépassé … ) que nos politiciens, trop occupés à récupérer les voix musulmanes pour garder leurs sièges et leurs prébendes, n’ont pas, par lâcheté, su ou voulu éradiquer.
– etc … etc …
Les mesures préconisées dans les commentaires précédents me semblent adaptées à la situation … mais qui aura le courage de les mettre en œuvre ?
Toutefois, le reste de l’Europe occidentale n’est pas épargné par le fléau islamiste, à des degrés différents cependant, en fonction du courage de leurs dirigeants …
Merci de prier pour la France …
A.RAUSCHER 82 ans Montlevicq France
Alain, you need to provide an English translation.
Wake up France kick those MUZRATS out
yum…only americans turn a blind eye to his bullshit
ahhhh
the sight of how they integrate in to western societies
I hope France government take seriously to handle those muslims, they are like cancer, just make regulation of law to shoot without warning if they do those act again or deport them all back to their original country, and for preventing, just block access or grant no visas for muslim to stay in the France..and I hope all europe country do this also
There is an old adage, “Fight fire with fire,” and in this case a literal application would be most appropriate. FLAME THROWERS! Have the army rush out with tanks and flame throwers and torch these celebrating youngsters when they start to burn cars. Make this the new French New Year’s resolution!
Call me an ‘optimist’ but maybe the car burnings are a form of fraud. People (especially muslims) can’t pay their car payments, they part out the car for cash, and then torch the shell so the insurance company will call it a total loss. Or maybe it’s a bizarre form of economic stimulus. 40,000 cars destroyed each year is 40,000 cars more each year that need to be purchased.
If the truth is that muslims just burn cars because they are a-holes and France doesn’t declare martial law to stop it, then France is doomed. They really will deserve the name, ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’.
The pathetic pacifist EU have disarmed the European citizens , of whom too many are willfully ignorant of pisslam or so far locked in their PC insanity to actually stand up for themselves and their culture and values instead of bending over ,like a terrified little girl to her Muslim rapist, to the Islamic scum so an outbreak of a continent-wide civil war to purge Europe of the Islamic vermins will never be more than a pipe dream.Real freedom loving Americans should take note and fight the democrats tooth and nail to keep their guns and hopefully one day , the majority of the Americans will rise up
An average of 40,000 cars a year are burned each year. That is insanity. If francistan will not protect the property of people then the people will have no choice but to become civilian vigilantes. The police need to pass the word that muslims torching cars will be shot on sight. Fair warning.
Bend over, France, and kiss your ass goodbye….who would ever want to be in your country with this going on? If you don’t wake up soon, you will have lost what used to be a beautiful country. I am sad for the history, the architecture, the wonderful people in the countryside. Hope you like eating a lot of mutton.
If I were an insurance company there, I think I would remove coverage for arson and the people would need to find ways to hide their cars or get themselves some guns and protect their property.
I was there many years ago, before the muslim invasion, and even then we had some trouble with the local youth on the Metro when they deliberately blocked the exit so we couldn’t get off at our stop with a baby in a stroller.
I don’t know what the carry laws are in the home of the white flag, France, but people should watch and hopefully shoot to kill these ragheads. They have no idea if someone may be sleeping in the car. What great fun for the semi-civilized mutton molesters. Leave them where you find them. That should make it even more fun !
Every year 40,000 cars are burned by Mohammadans in France in a constant jihad against hated French infidels. The hated infidels who took them into France and gave them housing and supported them financially.
There is only one solution to jihad. Deportation back to their hell hole countries. The Muslim countries of their origin would NOT accept Muslims burning 40,000 cars every year. The Muslims would be treated most severely. Not like our weak, despicable, spineless Western countries who allow Muslims to constantly break our laws and attack our people.
Why don’t you all take your next welfare checks and get on the next Camel back to shithole Africa! Stop thinking it is everyone elses job to support you!
Muzzies are just trying to stay warm, don’tcha know? LOL
France is for the birds and the Islamist and Socialist bird brains.
The Police should have a State approved cull of these fuckers . In one Australian city away back , under Martial Law , only two arseholes had to be shot dead before the looters stopped looting . There is a good firm message in a legally fired bullet .
40,000 Cars burned by muslims every year in France. So much for such a tiny country. Car insurance against fire must be expensive.
lets organise for them to sit in the cars and then light up that would be interesting