Paris Cancels NYE Party Amid Concerns Over Migrant Crisis

Paris has scrapped its iconic New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées, replacing the live celebration with a pre-recorded broadcast as security concerns mount over migrant-related violence.

The midnight fireworks will still light up the Arc de Triomphe, but officials are urging revelers to watch from home rather than gather on what many call “the most beautiful avenue in the world,” the New York Post reported.

The Paris police prefecture pushed Mayor Anne Hidalgo to cancel the concert, citing “unpredictable crowd movements.” The event drew roughly one million attendees last year and has been a tradition for six decades.

“Last year, we had more scares in two hours of New Year’s Eve celebrations on the Champs-Élysées than in three weeks of the Olympic Games,” a police commissioner told France Info. (RELATED: Bureaucrats Try Fixing Migrant Crisis After Letting It Rip Through Europe For Years)

The cultural suicide of Europe continues…Paris just cancelled its beloved New Year’s Concert too. “Security concerns”….

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Critics blame France’s immigration policies for the security breakdown.

“It’s obvious that this is the result of massive unvetted Muslim immigration into Europe,” Daniel Di Martino, an immigration fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told the NY Post. “Western Europe has had a terrorism problem for many years now, and that has been exacerbated because of unvetted Islamic immigration as a result of the refugee crisis of over a decade ago.”

The famed avenue has become a flashpoint for violence, with young migrants from Paris suburbs accused of looting stores and clashing with police during major gatherings.

Bruno Retailleau, head of Les Républicains and former interior minister, slammed the cancellation as capitulation.

“Unfortunately, in France, there is such a turn toward savagery that everything becomes a pretext for violence,” Retailleau said.

Last New Year’s Eve saw 984 cars torched and 420 arrests across France.