France is tallying the costs from a fourth night of street violence and looting as the family of the teenaged boy whose killing by police triggered a wave of anger prepared to bury him.
Clashes between police and mostly young people overnight were described by the Interior Ministry as “less intense” after 45,000 officers were deployed in cities across France. Some 1,311 people were arrested, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the ministry, which said 2,560 fires had been lit and hundreds of buildings damaged.
Public buildings like town halls, libraries and police stations were attacked, and stores were looted in cities like Marseille, Lyon and Grenoble, and in areas within and around Paris.
