France's mayors have called on the public and elected officials to gather at town halls nationwide on Monday in a show of mass opposition to violent protests that have rocked the country since last Tuesday following the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old at the hands of the police. There were fewer arrests on Sunday night, suggesting the violence may be waning.
The extraordinary call for a "mobilisation of citizens for a return to republican order" came after the home of a mayor in the Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses was rammed with a flaming car on Saturday night in an apparent bid to burn it down.
