While that link gives you the original French report, the translated report reads as bad news for the French, and the French authorities. Basically, the total number of cars torched on New Year's Eve was 70% high than the figure provided by the French Interior Ministry the week following New Years. The number of cars torched on New Years was not 396 or even 483 as No Pasaran notes, but rather 683. Law enforcement and the media purposefully downplayed and underreported the number of cars torched. They wanted you to think that the situation in France had calmed down, but the figures show that not to be the case.
Will anyone hold the French government responsible for the continuing inability to contain the violence? Or does anyone in France care about the ongoing carbeques that have now blended into the background.
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