A total of 667 people arrested across France after violence triggered by the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old on Tuesday
France’s interior ministry has said 249 police and gendarmes were injured in Thursday night’s rioting, which rather than pitched battles between protesters and police was marked by looting of shops and attacks on public buildings.
Flagship branches of Nike and Zara were looted in Paris, French media have reported, while among other incidents a police station in the Pyrenean city of Pau was hit by a Molotov cocktail and an elementary school and a district office set on fire in Lille.
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