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France's New Year's Tradition: Car-Burning

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w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r Grand Master

w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r   123

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As yet another orgy of automobile arson on Wednesday demonstrated, the torching of cars in France has not only become an everyday event; it's also now a regular form of expression for disenfranchised suburban youths wanting to make sure the rest of the country doesn't forget they exist. And their fiery presence is never felt so strongly as it is each New Year's Eve - the day of France's unofficial festival of car-burning.

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1,147 cars went up in smoke on New Year's Eve - a 30% rise on the 879 autos torched the same night in 2007. As often is the case, the worst-hit areas were the disadvantaged neighborhoods that sit beyond the suburban peripheries of most French cities. A total of 422 cars were burned in Paris-area housing projects, compared to 12 in the relatively well-policed Parisian intra muros.

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President Nicolas Sarkozy's ... best suggestion for punishing the perpetrators (who are rarely caught or identified) sounded positively permissive. Rather than threaten the young arsonists with jail time ... Sarkozy recommended that they be forced to reimburse their victims for the damages - and be barred from earning a driver's license until they do.

Sarkozy's seemingly lax solution to tackling France's car-burning bonanza hardly reflects the gravity and scope of the problem.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090103/wl_time/08599186939200

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it seems like france's youth has a real plan to keep french automakers in business.

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it seems like france's youth has a real plan to keep french automakers in business.

awesome... but not in the US... I like cars that are ridiculously cheap

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The 'youths' sure are angry. :rolleyes:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."

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The story doesn't say much about the background of the car burners.

AP – Demonstrators shout anti-Israeli slogans near a car set on fire during a protest against the ongoing …

Oh, I wonder who be chanting anti-Israeli slogans and destroying things? Must be the Huguenots.

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French Toast?

Don't just open your mouth and prove yourself a fool....put it in writing.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out, the uglier everything seems.

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Too bad they didn't fight like that to defend their own country.

The cars are all german made in France

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