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 addition, according to a police source at CNEWS, the Alsatian town recorded at least 29 placements in police custody, including 9 minors and 56 vehicles set on fire.
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 were fired. Same observation in Nantes, where the police also discovered numerous Molotov cocktails in the bushes.
According to other police sources at CNEWS, at least 80 vehicles were set on fire in the Paris region in the departments of Yvelines, Essonne and Seine-Saint-Denis.
In these same departments, a police officer was injured and several attacked. In addition, numerous trash fires, projectile throwing, mortar fire and also the use of weapons were recorded.
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.
