The riots in France started after a French policeman shot 17-year-old Nahel to death while he was trying to escape in a car.
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More than 1,300 people were arrested in France, during the fourth night of rioting after the death of Nahel M, a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent, in police shooting.
French President Emmanuel Macron postponed his scheduled visit to Germany as a result of unrest in the country. Local media reports that the government deployed 45,000 police and several armoured vehicles overnight to tackle the crisis.
It said, looters have ransacked dozens of shops and torched 2,000 vehicles since the start of the riots, which have spread to cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille.
🔴 Des dizaines de barricades enflammées sont érigées à #Collombes. Tensions en cours. pic.twitter.com/oVxJ3CChIW
— Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) June 30, 2023
France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, more than 200 police officers have been injured. Nahel was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday in the Paris suburb.