France sees fall in New Year's Eve car-burnings

The number of cars set alight in France on New Year's Eve
fell significantly this year, the government has said.
Some 12% fewer cars were set alight on Wednesday compared
with 2013, in a measure of what has effectively become an
annual event in French suburbs since riots in 2005 in Paris
and elsewhere.
The number of vehicles torched fell from 1,067 a year ago to
940, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Security was high in France overnight following a series of
street attacks.
While the car-burning can be easily traced back to 2005, some
correspondents say the idea of burning cars as a form of
protest in France dates back into the 1990s.
The country has reported regularly on the numbers of cars set
ablaze each December 31, although former President Nicholas
Sarkozy abandoned the practice in 2010-11 amid fears it was
sparking copycat actions.
The interior ministry this year cited the "substantial, active
and dissuasive mobilisation of the security forces" as a reason
for the fall this year.
Some 90,000 security personnel were deployed over New
Year's Eve.
France has been on alert after a spate of unexpected and
apparently unrelated attacks in the run up to Christmas.
The attacks, in Nantes, Dijon and Tours, left more than 20
people injured.

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