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Each year, July 14 rhymes with ball firefighters, but also with cars burned … According to the balance sheet, unveiled Sunday evening by the Ministry of the Interior, a total of 845 cars have were burned and 508 people were placed in custody during the two evenings of 13 and 14 July in France.
Number of cars burned down
The number of cars burned is down compared to the last year when 897 vehicles went up in smoke. The number of detainees, however, jumped from 368 in 2017 to 508 this year, said the spokesman of the ministry that points out that "no major incident was to deplore."
"The Minister of the Interior, Gerard Collomb congratulates the mobilization of all law enforcement for these first two nights of celebration that have allowed a large number of arrests troublemakers, told AFP, the spokesman of the Ministry of the Interior, Frédéric de Lanouvelle
29 injured members of the security forces
"The mbadive mobilization of the police allowed to avoid any major incident", he said added. According to the results of the Place Beauvau, 29 members of the police were injured during these two nights of festivities Friday and Saturday, against 21 last year.
Some 110,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized to the occasion of the festivities of 14-July and the final of the World Cup which took place this Sunday.
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