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Street unrest eased in France overnight after nearly a week of riots and looting touched off by a police officer’s killing of a teenager that underscored serious tensions in the country’s ethnically mixed suburban neighborhoods.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the 24-year-old died in Saint-Denis, in the northern suburbs of Paris, after another night of violence in France sparked by a teen's death

Even though the rioting appeared to be less intense on Saturday, with tens of thousands of police deployed in cities across the country, over 700 people were arrested

Riots have swept through the country following the fatal shooting of 17-year-old, Nahel Merzouk who was shot by police on Tuesday

French President Emmanuel Macron is to meet on Tuesday with some 220 mayors of towns that have witnessed riots that broke out since the death of the 17-year-old Nahel M. at the hands of a police officer. Seeking to suppress the violent unrest that has swept across major cities the…

Following a night where 1,300 people were arrested across France, 45,000 police officers have been deployed again across the country, after the killing of a teenager at a police checkpoint sparked unrest that prompted President Emmanuel Macron to postpone a trip to Germany.

The death of a teenage boy killed by police in a Paris suburb has sparked riots across France

Despite 45,000 officers on country’s streets, cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores were looted, while 994 arrests made by early Saturday

The shooting of the 17-year-old teenager has sparked outrage in a number of cities