New Year's Eve and night were relatively quiet.
“There was no notable incident yesterday in all of France”, assured this Sunday morning, from Mayotte, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
It must be said that 90,000 police and gendarmes were mobilized for the occasion.
"A very big effort made by the Ministry of the Interior, particularly in Île-de-France," said the tenant of Place Beauvau.
" The best possible "
A particularly dense crowd was however gathered on the Champs-Élysées.
According to Gérald Darmanin, a million people went to the most beautiful avenue in the world to celebrate the passage in 2023. Even “almost two million if we take a fairly wide perimeter”, he specified.
"It went as well as possible."
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The tenant of Place Beauvau mentioned 500 arrests at the national level, in particular of people "who had mortars" or "who wanted to set fire to cars".
"The advice of firmness was well applied by the prefects", he welcomed, on the occasion of his trip to Mayotte, explaining that 20% fewer cars than last year were burned compared to Last year.
