Arson attacks are actually an extremely French phenomenon, over 1000 cars are often torched a night on New Years Eve
>but this sort of escalation cannot be left unchecked
Some of us would rather not die in a world war because a sports event was mildly disrupted
Highly relevant:
TIL that during the 2005 French riots, up to 1408 cars were burned per night across the country. The government declared that the riots had ended when, after three weeks of chaos, only 98 cars were burned per night ("return to a normal situation everywhere in France"). <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4i50p8/til_th...>
> 2005
Explain how are singular events from 2005 "highly relevant"?
As far as I can tell it happened twice, 19 years ago and 4 years ago. I wouldn't call it a "common" occurrence.
Now, 1000 cars or 700 cars doesn't mean much, one would have to compare it to the amount of cars in France. For example, more than 150 000 cars burn each year in the US (probably not just arson, but it's not my point) which is 500 per day on average. But there are more cars in the US than in France.
Thanks to the power of art, it can be Russian and French at the same time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Pavlensky#Lighting_(2017)