Fires, looting and hundreds of arrests: Key events from the third night of violence in France

Police forces patrol the streets during the third night of violent protests in Nanterre, outside Paris, on June 29, 2023. © Christophe Ena, AP

French President Emmanuel Macron was Friday to chair a new crisis meeting of ministers after a third straight night of nationwide protests over the deadly police shooting of a teenager saw cars torched, shops ransacked and hundreds arrested.

The overnight unrest followed a march on Thursday in memory of the 17-year-old, named Nahel, whose death has revived longstanding grievances about policing and racial profiling in France's low-income and multiethnic suburbs.