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  At least 30 cars TORCHED in Strasbourg, France

  Posted by Unknown Member on 1 January 2021 at 1:11 pm

  Dozens of vehicles were set ablaze across Strasbourg, after groups of vandals flouted an 8pm curfew order, taking to the streets for a fiery New Year’s Eve custom that’s seen hundreds of cars torched over previous holidays.

  At least 30 vehicles were destroyed in arson attacks on Thursday night, according to police sources cited by French daily Le Figaro.

  “We are already at a certain number of burnt vehicles,” said the office of Josiane Chevalier, the prefect of the Bas-Rhin region, adding that several arrests had been made throughout the night.

  Smoldering cars, as well as those fully engulfed in flames, were seen in videos posted to social media, in some cases setting off loud blasts as the vehicles’ fuel ignited.

  Warning earlier on Thursday that there would be no “concession” to vandals, Chevalier said the city “cannot afford to have the same record as last year” and that the authorities had done everything in their power to curtail the car burnings.

  In 2019, some 220 cars in the city were incinerated in a relentless string of vandalism on New Year’s Eve.

  In addition to a nationwide 8pm curfew and a number of street closures in Strasbourg, fireworks had been banned for the entire month of December. Local police also set up “mobile forces” in “strategic locations” across the city, according to Annie Bregal, Bas-Rhin’s director of public security. A total of 100,000 officers and gendarmes were stationed across France to enforce the restrictions, and retail sales of fuel were temporarily banned.

  It appears the rioters bought their fuel the day before!

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