A gunman opened up on police and a weapons shop was looted during escalating riots across France caused by the killing of a teenager in Paris.
As friends and family today attended the funeral of Nahel Merzouk, 17, details of the worsening civil unrest were released.
An officer in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, described how ‘gunfire started’ as a police patrol entered a council estate where tower blocks had been set alight in the early hours of this morning.
