BREAKING: France will suspend all bus and tram services amid ongoing riots over a police shooting
In Nanterre, where the shooting took place, protesters torched cars, barricaded streets and hurled projectiles at police following a vigil.
National police said on Thursday night that officers also faced new incidents in other areas of the country - in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille, including fires and fireworks.Meanwhile, the police officer who shot and killed the teenager asked the family of the boy for forgiveness. His lawyer Laurent-Franck Lienard told BFMTV:"The first words he pronounced were to say sorry and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family.France protests: Car smashes into LidlMr Lienard added that his client's detention was being used to try to calm rioters.
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