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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jonathan Yerushalmy and agencies

France protests: more than 1,300 arrested as riots surge in Marseille and Lyon

More than 1,300 people were arrested in a fourth night of violence in France after the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy.

Forty-five thousand police officers, including special forces, were deployed to respond to rioting across the country on Friday night, with the situation in two big cities – Marseille and Lyon – highlighted as particularly chaotic, with buildings and vehicles torched and stores looted.

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