What is it about French, uh, "youths" and car burning? (world, security)

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".....Such vandalism is generally attributed to marauding youths from tough neighborhoods in immigrant-heavy areas, and evokes the three-week wave of riots and other violence that shocked the country in late 2005."

French police detain nearly 400 over New Year's - USATODAY.com

"...The interior ministry had mobilised 8,000 police in the capital and 45,000 nationally for the night, after authorities counted 1,147 cars set on fire a year ago - a toll that appeared to have fallen this time round.

Glass bottles were prohibited at the celebrations in central Paris and customers banned from filling portable containers at petrol pumps...."

Scores of cars burned, hundreds arrested over French New Year | Herald Sun

France24 - More than a thousand cars torched on New Year's Eve