Forty-five thousand police and gendarmes deployed across country in fifth night of rioting

• ‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police

Police made at least 700 arrests during a fifth night of rioting in France, but despite an attack on the home of a local mayor authorities said the scale and intensity of the violence sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager appeared to be waning.

As security reinforcements were deployed on Saturday to flashpoint cities around the country, including Lyon, Marseille and Grenoble, protesters – mostly minors – again torched cars, looted shops, damaged infrastructure and clashed with police.

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Source: The Guardian