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31 Dec. 2005
Paris, France
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy (front L) visits mounted police at the Champs de Mars in Paris on New Year's eve December 31, 2005. France will deploy some 25,000 police officers to keep order on New Year's Eve following rioting, arson attacks and other violence that hit France for three weeks in November. REUTERS/Jacques Demarthon/Pool