Nearly 500 people arrested in France on New Year’s Eve
Making a statement to the press on the island of Mayotte, one of the country’s overseas territories, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said New Year’s evening and night were generally calm and there were no serious incidents yesterday. in France.
Darmanin said they saw a 20 percent decrease in the number of vehicles burned on New Year’s Eve compared to the previous year. The number of vehicles burned in the new year was 690.
Stating that around 500 people were detained on New Year’s Eve, Darmanin claimed that this corresponds to an 11 percent increase.
Darmanin claimed that there were more than 1 million people on the Champs-Élysées, the most famous street in the capital Paris, where a fireworks display was held at night, and this number increased to 2 million over a wider area.
On New Year’s Eve, 90 thousand police and gendarmes were on duty. (AA)
Source: Sozcu
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