French Police Arrested 150 Rioters

According to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanen, around 150 people were arrested last night in France for taking part in riots sparked by police in the Nanterre district of Paris on June 27 when they shot dead a 17-year-old driver.

After a second night of rioting across the country, 150 people were arrested in France, Darmanin said Thursday.

The ministry said dozens of police officers were injured in the clashes. Town halls, schools, and police stations were destroyed or attacked during this night of intolerable violence against the republic's symbols. "150 arrests," Darmanin wrote on Twitter.

Deep-seated notions of police brutality in the racially varied neighborhoods of France's largest cities have been exacerbated by the use of fatal force by police against teenage lads of North African heritage in the working-class Paris suburb of Nanterre.

The Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that 2,000 police officers were on duty in the Paris area, and Reuters reported that just before midnight a number of overturned cars caught fire on Pablo Picasso's Nanterre's Avenue as fireworks exploded along police lines.

In Lille in the north and Toulouse in the southwest, police battled demonstrators, according to a police spokesman, violence also occurred in Amiens, Dijon, and the administrative region of Essonne south of Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis meeting of his cabinet on the phone on Thursday, the presidential office reported.

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9 Dead After Vehicles Came Under Terrorists Attack In Afghanistan

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