The situation in riot-torn France appeared calmer in the early hours of Sunday, but cars could still be seen overturned and on fire in Paris amid violence sparked by the police killing of a teenager
Identified as Nadia by French media, she said the rioters were using 17-year-old Nahel's death as an excuse to cause havoc and that the family wanted calm."Don't destroy the schools, don't destroy the buses ... I'm telling them [the rioters] to stop."
The government's "crisis unit" has been activated until further notice, and Macron was due to meet his ministers later.of police violence and systemic racism - denied by authorities - inside law enforcement agencies from rights groups and within the low-income, racially mixed suburbs that ring major French cities.
Paris' police chief said it was too early to say the unrest had been quelled. "There was evidently less damage but we will remain mobilised in the coming days. We are very focused, nobody is claiming victory," Laurent Nunez said. In Paris, shop facades on the popular Avenue des Champs-Elysees were boarded up overnight, and there were sporadic clashes elsewhere. Police said six public buildings were damaged and five officers wounded., Vincent Jeanbrun, was rammed with a vehicle, and his wife and children were attacked with fireworks as they escaped.
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