The figures just for Ile-de-France are 48 arrests and 29 in custody. In addition, 98 persons were arrested and 58 were placed in custody in all of France. Now it seems that another 295 were torched the following night, making a total of 592 cars destroyed – 150 in Ile-de-France (the Parisian region) and 145 in the provinces. In my previous post I mentioned that 297 cars had burned during the night of July 13-14. The Brussels Journal: ".Sarko Had Better Bully France’s Thugs" Last night marked the third day of rioting in Lyon, and the second day of unrest in Paris, as people demonstrated against two unrelated incidents of alleged police brutality that took place on July 8. The cars torched represented a seven percent increase over last year and police arrested almost double the number of protesters-240-despite a new law that has toughened punishments against rioters. Bastille-Day-eve violence has become traditional in France as disaffected young men seize the occasion to express anger at unemployment rates and failed policies toward ethnic minorities. ![]() Der Spiegel reports that at least 317 cars were torched yesterday in French cities despite the deployment of 10,000 police officers. This Bastille Day, the French celebrated their country in what is becoming a grim, albeit historically appropriate tradition: riots. The Daily Beast: "Rioters Burn 317 Cars in France"
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