French authorities beefed up efforts to quell widespread unrest over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old that continued to engulf the country for a fourth evening.
that continued to engulf the country for a fourth evening, with more 1,300 protestors being arrested as cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores looted.
Hundreds of police and firefighters have been injured, including 79 overnight, but authorities haven’t released injury tallies for protesters. “He saw a little Arab-looking kid, he wanted to take his life,” she said. “A police officer cannot take his gun and fire at our children, take our children’s lives.”
Early Saturday, firefighters in Nanterre extinguished blazes set by protesters that left scorched remains of cars strewn across the streets. In the neighboring suburb Colombes, protesters overturned garbage bins and used them for makeshift barricades.
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