France’s second and third generation immigrant community celebrated the New Year with a 30 percent increase in car arsons in major centres in that country, according to figures from the French Interior Ministry.

The official count is that some 1,147 cars went up in smoke on New Year’s Eve, a 30 percent rise on the 879 cars torched the same night in 2007.

The worst-hit areas were, as described by the controlled media, “the disadvantaged neighbourhoods that sit beyond the suburban peripheries of most French cities” — in other words, the immigrant dominated areas.

The immigrant violence was reported on in some American, Australian and New Zealand newspapers — but was completely blacked out and ignored by the BBC and other British “news” outlets.

The French Interior Ministry said police had arrested 288 people during the night, up from 259 last year. The government mobilized 35,000 police officers on New Year’s Eve, about 7,000 more than last year. French officials also were on heightened alert after five sticks of dynamite were left in a Paris department store just before Christmas by someone who demanded the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.

It was in the “banlieu” neighbourhoods around Paris that the unrest of November and December 2005 was started after an immigrant youth fleeing a crime scene was accidentally electrocuted. In response, the immigrant community started with its usual cry of blaming whites for all their ills, and quickly turned to rioting and destruction as a way of showing their “dissatisfaction.”

Car arson is now the preferred method of attack used by these alien invaders. French statistics show that a total of 36,700 cars were burned in France in the first eleven months of 2008.

Other cities whose unemployment-racked, immigrant-swamped banlieues also lived up to their reputations for frequent car-burning included Strasbourg, Lille, Toulouse and Nantes.

Nearly 43,000 cars were torched in France over the whole of 2007 — an average of almost 118 per day.

* From Sweden comes the news that police in the immigrant-swamped Malmö suburb of Rosengård — where recent immigrant invader unrest flared after a mosque was closed — have been forced to hire private security to help with the surveillance and protection of their police station.