Major French cities saw a third night of riots on Thursday (June 30) as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting unrest triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop, Reuters reports.
Forty thousand police officers were to deploy across France -- nearly four times the numbers mobilized on Wednesday -- but there were few signs that government appeals to a de-escalation in the violence would quell the widespread anger.
In Nanterre, the working class town on the western outskirts of Paris where 17-year-old Nahel M. was shot dead on Tuesday, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a peaceful vigil.
Protesters scrawled "Vengeance for Nahel" across buildings and bus shelters and as night set a bank was lit on fire before firemen put it out.
