While the services feared a terrorist act or serious excesses, New Year's Eve almost took on the appearance of a sea of oil.
Little violence punctuated this New Year's Eve, closely watched by 90,000 police and gendarmes throughout the territory.
From Mayotte, where he is traveling this weekend to announce a strengthening of the fight against illegal immigration, Gérald Darmanin announced on Sunday that around 500 people have been arrested across France, in particular for attacks against the forces. of the order.
That is an increase of 11% in arrests compared to 2022, due in particular to the instructions of particular firmness.
Anxious to properly lock his security system, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had asked the bosses of the police and the gendarmerie to "
systematically arrest the troublemakers
".
The prefects had meanwhile been invited to set up a “
deterrent device, visible and on foot, associating the military internal security forces of the sentinel operation
”.
Fewer burned cars
In several “
hot
” districts of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) in particular, unknown persons however targeted mobile gendarmes by throwing Molotov cocktails and firing fireworks mortars.
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The number of burnt cars, the count of which was stopped in 2009 to avoid any overbidding or competition between cities, has meanwhile fallen by 20% compared to last year, when 648 fire starts caused 874 burned vehicles.
This figure is constantly decreasing, knowing that 1,316 vehicles were set on fire in 2019.
One of the mildest temperatures ever recorded for the end of December and a record crowd of one million people who came to party on the Champs-Élysées could make people fear the worst.
However, no burst of violence was to be deplored in Paris and its close crown, padlocked by a solid device of 5400 police officers deployed in the agglomeration.