@Kingssman I am quite sure there have been more than the reported 6 incidents, especially looking at the papers Apple have sent to the ones who have been unlucky to experience such an event. The French, as many Europeans, won`t stand for such threaths and would rather have justice than a refund.
As a fair comparison we can see at the incidents of exploding cell phones in China, where there is more than 500 million cell-phone subscribers, which for the last 6 years just manages to match the reported explosion rate of the iPhone. I don`t want to do the math, but it does seem that the risk of an exploding iPhone is unreasonably high in comparison.