The violence erupted after the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy, who is being identified only by his first name, Nahel.
as the government deployed 45,000 police officers and “gendarmerie,” the French equivalent of the National Guard.
“The level of violence last night was lower than the previous night,” according to the ministry, because of the “mobilization of domestic security forces across the country.” The legal team representing the teenager’s family hasn’t said if it believes race was a factor in the shooting, which has stirred long-simmering tensions between French police and young people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the suburbs of the capital and elsewhere.
Nahel’s funeral ceremony began on Saturday. It was a private affair; family and friends viewed the open coffin before it was taken to a mosque for a ceremony and later burial in a town cemetery.
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