Protesters scrawled "Vengeance for Nahel" across buildings and as night set a bank was lit on fire before firefighters put it out and an elite police unit deployed an armoured vehicle. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a peaceful vigil. In Nanterre, the working-class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. NANTERRE, France, June 29 (Reuters) - France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop.įorty thousand police officers were deployed across France - nearly four times the numbers mobilised on Wednesday - but there were few signs that government appeals to de-escalate the violence would quell the widespread anger. Officer charged with shooting 17-year-old in Paris suburb.France to deploy 40,000 police officers.Protesters set up barricades, burn cars, ransack bank.
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