More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting as family and friends of Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked the unrest, gathered for the teenager’s funeral in the Paris suburb where he died. | Reuters
Several hundred people lined up to enter Nanterre’s grand mosque, which was guarded by volunteers in yellow vests, while a few dozen bystanders watched from across the street.“I think it’s important we all stand together,” she told Reuters.
“If you have the wrong skin colour, the police are much more dangerous to you,” said a young man, who declined to be named, adding that he was a friend of Nahel’s.Looters have ransacked dozens of shops and torched 2,000 vehicles since the start of the riots, which have spread to cities such as Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg and Lille.
Rioters in France’s second-largest city had looted a gun store and stole hunting rifles, but no ammunition, police said. The unrest has revived memories of nationwide riots in 2005 that forced then President Jacques Chirac to declare a state of emergency, after the death of two young men electrocuted in a power substation as they hid from police.
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