Car burning, as the protest of angry and violent people, is an awful annual tradition (photo) in France on New Year's Eve. It declined about 10% last year because of the coming Olympics, so only 745 vehicle fires were reported by authorities. Hopefully some restraint will be exercised tomorrow.
I posted about the recurring event in January of 2018:
A French "tradition" of intentional car burning
takes place every New Year's Eve. In just the Ile de France region of 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."
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