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It is a Christmas tradition.

The number of cars set alight in France on New Year's Eve fell significantly this year, the government has said.

Some 12% fewer cars were set alight on Wednesday compared with 2013, in a measure of what has effectively become an annual event in French suburbs since riots in 2005 in Paris and elsewhere.

The number of vehicles torched fell from 1,067 a year ago to 940, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Security was high in France overnight following a series of street attacks.

While the car-burning can be easily traced back to 2005, some correspondents say the idea of burning cars as a form of protest in France dates back into the 1990s. T

The country has reported regularly on the numbers of cars set ablaze each December 31, although former President Nicholas Sarkozy abandoned the practice in 2010-11 amid fears it was sparking copycat actions.

The interior ministry this year cited the "substantial, active and dissuasive mobilisation of the security forces" as a reason for the fall this year.

Some 90,000 security personnel were deployed over New Year's Eve.

France has been on alert after a spate of unexpected and apparently unrelated attacks in the run up to Christmas.

The attacks, in Nantes, Dijon and Tours, left more than 20 people injured.

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You have to have owned a Citroen to understand this way of welcoming the new year.
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