The Interior Minister rejoiced on January 1 for good New Year’s numbers.
There has been no “notable incident” in France, Gérald Darmanin announced this Sunday, January 1st. According to the Interior Minister, who spoke from Mayotte where he is visiting, on New Year’s Eve 2023 the cars burned were 21% less (690) than the previous year (874).
Thanks to the 90,000 policemen and gendarmes engaged last night for the New Year’s Eve #New Year’s Eveoccurred without notable incidents:
✅ Historic 21% drop in the number of vehicles burned
✅ 11% increase in the number of arrests pic.twitter.com/qZmRyxQyh2— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) January 1, 2023
Police made 490 arrests, or “11%” more than last year (421), the interior ministry said in a press release.
“Insurance Scams”
And the minister to evoke the interviewees who “wanted to fire mortars at the police” or “wanted to set fire to the cars”, some of them to set up “insurance scams”.
“A downward trend in the number of burnt vehicles in recent years,” the ministry rejoices again, given that 1,316 burnt out during New Year’s Eve 2019.
Good figures that Gérald Darmanin attributes to the “very important presence of the gendarmes and the police”, especially in Paris.
