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France deployed 45,000 police officers and some armored vehicles on the streets on Saturday as riots rocked French cities after an officer shot dead a teenager in a working class suburb of Paris earlier this week.
Speaking from Mantes-la-Jolie early on Saturday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said there had been at least 471 arrests on Friday night and violence was of "much less intensity" than the previous night, when more than 900 people were arrested.
The fatal shooting of Nahel M, a 17-year-old teenager, by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre on Tuesday has prompted protests throughout France.
The march in Nanterre, a town on the western outskirts of Paris, was proceeding peacefully at first, with Nahel's mother leading the crowd. But later, some protesters began throwing projectiles at police outside the main local administration building in Nanterre, and security forces then dispersed the protest by firing tear gas.
Vandalizing and looting were also reported in recent protests as police clashed with demonstrators.
France has imposed a nationwide 9:00 p.m. halt to bus and tram services in anticipation of a fourth consecutive night of protests.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron left a European Union summit in Brussels early to attend a second cabinet crisis meeting in two days. He has asked social media to remove "the most sensitive" footage of rioting and to disclose the identities of users fomenting violence.
As riots rocked French cities, protests also erupted in Belgium's capital over the French teenager's killing, with demonstrators setting vehicles on fire before police intervened and detained over 100 of them, local media reported on Friday.
(CGTN）
