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The new year did less damage this year. According to figures from the Ministry of Interior, 940 cars were burned during the night of New Year’s Eve on Thursday. A figure down from last year when 1,067 vehicles were burned, or 12% less

Also on the number of arrests. 308 against 322 last night on the occasion the transition to the year 2014.

“The consistent, active and dissuasive mobilization of security forces has helped prevent the occurrence of major incidents in the country, except in Paris where a brawl caused the death of a young man “in the Trocadéro district, the ministry said. The alleged perpetrator was “immediately arrested”, “the survey (…) will shed light on the circumstances of this tragic event,” is he said.

“In Alsace, where firecrackers, mortars and other devices had caused three deaths and many mutilations in the past two years, no serious injuries is to be deplored, “also welcomed the ministry. “The many preventive actions and seizure since Monday two tons of firecrackers and rockets banned from sale have contributed to occur no drama this year in the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin” a- he argued.

Over 90,000 policemen, soldiers and firefighters mobilized

“The police presence on the ground was a deterrent,” said the surgeon’s hand Philippe Liverneaux, who heads the “SOS Hands” service Illkirch, a suburb of Strasbourg. According to him, “five patients” were operated hand on the night of New Year’s Eve by the services of SOS Hands in Alsace against “two dozen” last year. In Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), two men aged 19 and 24 have particularly been almost torn by manipulating inch mortars, a kind of rocket launched from a launch pad.

The government had decided that Year strengthen arrangements, fearing terrorist attacks. Thus, more than 90,000 policemen, soldiers and firefighters were mobilized to ensure the safety of New Year’s Eve in the country: 55,000 police and 38,000 firefighters, 53,000 and 36,000 respectively against last year <. / p>

Some 1,700 policemen and gendarmes were deployed in Paris including the Champs-Elysees, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the night to greet the new year.