PARIS, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Vandals burned down 266 cars in France, including 195 vehicles in a Paris district, on the night of Bastille Day celebrated in the country July 14, a national police spokesman said Saturday.
Police have already detained 100 suspects in the act of vandalism and took 46 of them into custody.
Although the sale, use and storage of detonators were banned until Monday "to thwart accidents," four policemen received minor wounds, mostly in detonator explosions. A six-year-old girl was also injured in a detonator blast outside Paris and put to hospital.
Vandalism ahead of big holidays has become a bad tradition in France in the past few years. However, police said last night was unusually quite except for "routine riots" traditional for festivities.
A total of 254 cars were burned down on the eve of Bastille Day in France last year.
