Tuesday 31 December 2013

What do the young French in Cities do on St. Sylvestre?

They burn cars! Manuel Valls is set to deploy 53, 000 gendarmes and extra service personnel
Every country will experience its own excesses on Tuesday evening, in marking the passage of the New Year.
The French have their own peculiar tradition on the feast of Saint Sylvester, as it’s known – burning cars. Valls assured that he would release the figures for the number of vehicles destroyed throughout New Year's Eve.
To keep order on the streets and roads of France, and minimize damage and injury, the government on Tuesday morning announced the deployment of extra resources meaning 89,000 police officers and emergency services personnel will be on duty.