Violent riots convulsed French cities after the police shooting of a 17-year-old. The interior minister said that 45,000 officers were deployed across France overnight Saturday.
Riots convulsing French cities after a police shooting moved into a fifth night on Saturday, after days of protesters burning cars, setting fire to buildings and vandalizing and lighting fireworks outside police stations.
Overnight Saturday, 427 people were arrested, France’s interior minister said in a tweet early Sunday. That was down from the previous night, when more than 1,300 people had been arrested. He said that about 45,000 police officers had been deployed across the country on Saturday evening, a number similar to the night before.
The unrest has come in response to the killing of a 17-year-old by a police officer in Nanterre, a suburb west of Paris, on Tuesday.
Here is what to know about the violence:What set off the protests?
On Tuesday morning, a police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old boy, who has been identified only as Nahel M.
