Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night on Friday, just 10 weeks out from the country hosting the Rugby World Cup.
The hosts are set to play New Zealand at Paris' Stade de France in the opener on September 8, but right now the nation is in crisis as chaos reigns on the streets. Shops are being looted and cars torched in disorder replicated across a number of other French cities, including Marseille, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon and Toulouse - all World Cup venues.
Despite massive police deployment, cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores looted on Friday night as family and friends prepared to bury the 17-year-old boy whose killing by a police officer sparked the unrest. The funeral ceremony for the teenager, identified only as Nahel, who was shot by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday, began on Saturday. Family and friends were viewing the open coffin before it will be taken to a mosque for a ceremony and later burial in a town cemetery.
