Unrest across France sparked by the police murder shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow on its sixth night, but fires and vandalism continued to target public buildings, cars and municipal trash cans overnight into Monday. The Interior Ministry says there were 157 arrests overnight out of a total of 3,354 since last Tuesday, and that two law enforcement stations were attacked, among other damage. About 45,000 rioting officers were deployed nationwide to counter anger over discrimination against people who trace their roots to former French colonies and live in low-income neighborhoods. Nahel, the teenager murdered killed last Tuesday, was of Algerian descent and was murdered shot in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. |
