Overview
- The Interior Ministry’s final tally reports roughly 505 arrests nationwide and 1,173 vehicles set on fire during New Year’s celebrations.
- In Paris, prosecutors say 125 people were placed in custody and no vehicle arsons were recorded within their jurisdiction.
- Officials detail numerous incidents, including vehicle fires around Strasbourg, commissariats struck by fireworks in Rezé and Noyelles-Godault, and about thirty injured police, with the justice minister urging prison requisitions for attacks on officers.
- Hundreds of thousands gathered on the Champs-Élysées for fireworks at the Arc de Triomphe under a 10,000-strong security deployment.
- The Association Antoine Alléno, supported by the City of Paris, projected “2036” on the Arc de Triomphe to spotlight the new homicide routier law’s 10-year maximum sentence and discourage impaired driving.