Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth consecutive night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted. This comes as family and friends prepare to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by police on Tuesday unleashed the unrest.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, French police arrested 994 people nationwide overnight Friday after having deployed some 45,000 officers backed by light armoured vehicles and crack police units to quell the violence over the death of 17-year-old Nahel, killed during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb.
