BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a state visit to Germany because of the unrest in France, German authorities say.
Cars and buildings wereas family and friends prepared to bury the 17-year-old whose killing by an officer sparked the unrest.
France’s Interior Ministry announced the new figure for arrests around the country, where 45,000 police officers fanned out in a so-far unsuccessful bid to quell violence. Despite an appeal to parents by President Emmanuel Macron to keep their children at home, street clashes between young protesters and police raged on.
The funeral ceremony for the teenager, identified only as Nahel, who was killed by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday, also began today.A group of police officers walk during a protest in Nanterre, outside Paris, France today 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.
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