New Year’s Eve 2025 has ended and it’s time to take stock. With 100,000 police and gendarmes mobilized throughout the country, several notable excesses have occurred across the country.
A provisional assessment. The general climate of this New Year’s Eve 2025 appears for the moment to be rather calm. An observation which can be explained in particular by the very strong security system which has been put in place in Paris with 10,000 law enforcement and emergency services in Paris and the inner suburbs and an additional 90,000 nationally.
Nevertheless, several notable news events took place.
In Strasbourg, affected for several days by urban violence, a young 15-year-old teenager died after being hit by a fleeing vehicle.
In Lyon, Place Bellecour around midnight, a 2-year-old child was injured in the eye by a mortar shot. Further south in Cannes, a man was stabbed by another individual, the reasons are currently unknown but the attacker was arrested.
Mortar fire against the police in Nice
In Sarrebourg in Moselle, a school was the victim of an arson attack. Firefighters who came as reinforcements from Metz had to intervene to contain the fire started in a room of the building.
Other towns were affected by these excesses, in Saint-Etienne for example vehicles were burned and fireworks mortars. Same observation in Nantes, where the police also discovered numerous Molotov cocktails in the bushes.
In Nice, the police were targeted by mortar fire, which started fires. Finally, in the north, in Valenciennes, three people were arrested for urban rodeo and mortar fire. For the moment, this is only a provisional assessment.
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