Protests were sparked after police shot dead a 17-year-old boy on Tuesday, feeding deep-seated concerns about police violence and systemic racism inside the country,
Euronews reports.
More than 600 people have been arrested in France, following another night of protests.
Overnight from Thursday to Friday was marked by looting, fires and damage to public property, sparked by the killing of a teenage boy by police earlier in the week.
France's President Emmanuel Macron is due to chair a crisis meeting Friday afternoon, with protests now in their third night.
He has denounced the violence, which has swept through several cities, including Marseille, Lyon, Grenoble, Annecy, Toulouse and Saint-Etienne, as "unjustifiable".
The protests were sparked by the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M at point-blank range by the police on Tuesday, after he tried to drive away from a traffic stop in Nanterre, a Paris suburb.
The officer who opened fire is now under formal investigation for homicide, with prosecutors saying the use of the firearm was not legally justified.
The mother of Nahel, who's son is reportedly of Algerian and Morrocan descent, said she didn't blame the whole police force for his death - just the officer who pulled the trigger.
"He saw the face of an Arab, of a little kid, he wanted to take his life," she said.
The incident has fed longstanding complaints of police violence and systemic racism inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income, racially mixed suburbs around major cities in France.
Authorities mobilised 40,000 police and riot officers, including the elite Raid squad, across France on Thursday, though this massive deployment was not enough to stem the violence.
