France Back to Normal
Charles Johnson
Fri Nov 18, 2005 at 5:06 pm PST • Views: 152
According to Agence France Presse, the situation in France has returned to normal.
“Normal,” in this case, means that a mere 98 cars are being torched every night.
PARIS (AFP) - The situation throughout France has returned to normal after nearly three weeks of urban violence that left 9,000 vehicles torched and during which almost 3,000 people were arrested, police said.
There was a “return to a normal situation everywhere in France” overnight, the national police service said in a statement.
It said 98 vehicles were burnt nationwide, which was within the average nightly range for such arson attacks, and none of the 10,000 officers deployed was injured in any confrontation.
Thirty-three people were arrested, a number which showed that the police presence “remains very strong,” according to one officer.
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