INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PARIS: The mayor of a suburb of Paris said on Sunday that protesters had rammed a burning car into his home and then set the vehicle on
fire, injuring his wife and one of his children, as violent demonstrations across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old stretched
"Last night, a milestone was reached in terms of horror and ignominy," the mayor, Vincent Jeanbrun, of L'Hay-les-Roses, a town to the south
In a separate attack, the police said that rioters had tried to set fire to a car belonging to another mayor, in the town of La Riche, near
the city of Tours, southwest of Paris
Overall violence, however, appeared to lessen from previous nights
Police made 719 arrests nationwide by early Sunday following a mass security deployment aimed at quelling France's worst social upheaval in
On Friday night, over 1,300 were arrested and More than 3,000 people have been detained overall
The crisis has posed a new challenge to President Macron's leadership and exposed deep-seated discontent in low-income neighbourhoods over
discrimination and lack of opportunity
The unrest prompted Macron to delay what would have been the first state visit to Germany by a French president in 23 years.Tensions
remained high after the funeral the day before for the 17-year-old, named publicly only as Nahel, of Algerian and Moroccan descent, who was
fatally shot on Tuesday during a traffic stop in Nanterre, a Paris suburb
In a statement on Twitter early Sunday, the interior ministry said that 45 police officers had been injured
Some 45,000 police officers had been deployed across the country on Saturday, a number similar to the night before
In L'Hay-les-Roses, Jeanbrun said he was at the town hall, when a car was driven at his house at 1.30am while his wife and children, aged 5
His wife and one of his children were injured as they tried to run away, he said
Interior minister Gerald Darmanin called the attack "cowardly and terrible" and said an attempted-murder investigation had been opened.
