Three nights of rioting have been sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old at a traffic stop.

The death of Nahel M, who was of Algerian and Moroccan descent, has fanned longstanding resentment among poor, racially mixed, urban communities in France over repeated incidents of police violence and allegations of systemic racism.

Violence flared in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille as well as in parts of Paris and its suburbs, including the working-class suburb of Nanterre where Nahel was shot dead by police.


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