That's a pretty significant number, and one has to wonder about the media coverage - or should I say the lack thereof.
It's more than a year after the riots and the so-called economic answers haven't been implemented or haven't worked. Law enforcement is increasingly targeted by the thugs who are doing the nightly carbeques, and the situation continues to slowly get worse. Before the 2005 riots, 40 cars were torched on a 'normal' night. In 2006, that figure increased to over 100 per night. What are we going to see in 2006? 150-200 a night? That's the direction things are headed considering that the French police are still treating large parts of the banlieus as no-gos.
HT: Charles at LGF
UPDATE:
No Pasaran notes that the French are now taking the carbeque statistic and breaking out those cars deliberately set alight by the thugs and those that were burned because they were too close to the ones being torched.
UPDATE:
The media is doing its best to make it appear as though things are somehow quieter this year than last. That would be doing everyone a serious disservice. The media wants you to think that this level of violence is relatively low, but think again. Depending on which source you use, the violence this year ranges from being far worse than last year to being only very slightly better than last year (and that would require working with the worst numbers presented for last year). According to Foxnews' coverage of New Years 2006:
Police were especially cautious this time because of the wave of rioting and car-torchings that broke out for three weeks starting in late October. A state of emergency imposed during the rioting is still in effect.Other reports put the number of cars torched at anywhere from343 to 425.
In a pre-dawn tally Sunday, the Interior Ministry reported 249 vehicles burned throughout the country, including 84 in the Ile-de-France region that includes Paris. Nearly 200 arrests were reported, though it wasn't clear how many were linked to the vandalism.
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