Police were out in force in Paris last night in an attempt to clamp down on rioting. It was the fifth consecutive night of protests following the death of a teenager during a police traffic stop. Read more:
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Vincent Jeanbrun, who runs the Paris suburb of L'Hay-les-Roses, claimed the incident was an"assassination attempt" and authorities said they were treating it as attempted murder. The mayor, who had been at the town hall, claimed the perpetrators started a fire"to torch my house".A police officer stands in front of the damaged home of the mayor of L'Hay-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun
The town hall was targeted over several nights since the shooting of a 17-year-old boy and has been protected with barbed wire and barricades. But such a personal attack on a mayor's home is unusual.
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