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A French "tradition" of intentional car burning takes place every New Year's Eve. In just the Ile de France region around Paris this year there were 250 cars burned, plus 75 to the east in Strasbourg, and some in other cities.

It's bad, but it's been worse. NYT reported that 1067 cars were torched in France in 2013, and 940 in 2014.

New Year's weekend was also observed by assaults on police and firefighters. First to arrive at an apartment building fire in Saint-Denis, police went inside to rescue screaming children. Exiting the building with kids in their arms, they were stoned by "a bunch of young people."

The photo below of anti-riot police being assaulted by demonstrators was taken last May in Paris.

photo: time.com

As assaults on firefighters and police increase, suicides have also been rising.