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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   No cars were sexually assaulted.   
   Unless your car got torched.   
      
   Almost 1,000 Cars Torched Around France On New Year’s Eve: Government   
   Insists It ‘Went Particularly Well’…   
      
   Vandals in France torched 945 parked cars on New Year’s Eve in an arson   
   rampage that has become a sinister annual “tradition” amid a row over   
   whether the government sought to play down the figures.   
      
   According to the French interior ministry, the total of 945, which included   
   cars that were either “totally destroyed” or “more lightly affected”,   
   amounted to a 17 per cent rise compared to last year.   
      
   Despite this, New Year’s Eve “went off without any major incident”, the   
   interior ministry insisted in a statement, adding that there were only “a   
   few troubles with public order”.   
      
   In fact, police arrested 454 people over the night, 301 of whom were taken   
   into custody.    
      
   On Sunday, the ministry had chosen to release a much lower figure of 650 cars   
   torched, as this only indicated the number of vehicles “set on fire” and   
   not those engulfed in the ensuing flames.   
      
   The lower figure enabled it to claim: “Once again this year, the overall   
   number of vehicles burned demonstrates that, however intolerable, the   
   phenomenon is contained”. By this calculation, the rise, it said, was only   
   48 cars.   
   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/02/almost-1000-cars-torc   
   ed-around-france-new-years-eve-government/   
      
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