“Vehicle fires are down by 10%, as are mortar fire against law enforcement which is down by 80%,” assures the Minister of the Interior.
The start of 2024 has been “calm.” “389 arrests on national territory,” announced Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, in a new report. “Vehicle fires are down 10%, as are mortar fire against law enforcement, which is down 80%,” he added. 745 vehicles were burned
According to the minister, the New Year celebrations generally took place “peacefully, particularly in Paris.” “This night again alongside the police mobilized for our security. Thank you to them for their commitment. Major festivities took place peacefully, particularly in Paris, where more than a million people gathered,” the minister wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Speaking earlier from the Paris police headquarters where he had gone to take stock of the situation, Gérald Darmanin further indicated that there had been “small scuffles in Bordeaux and Nîmes”. “Things are happening as calmly as possible (…) it’s calmer than last year but there are a lot more people,” he said.
The Paris police prefect, Laurent Nunez, alongside him, Gérald Darmanin affirmed that “the police do an extremely tough job.” A few months before the 2024 Olympics (July 26 – August 11), New Year’s Eve, on the Champs-Élysées in particular, was a test of the capacity to welcome several hundred thousand spectators without incident.
