As the funeral for a teenager who was shot by a police officer began Saturday, France was left reeling after a fourth night of rioting raged in cities across the country.
as the government deployed 45,000 police officers and “gendarmerie,” the French equivalent of the National Guard.
“The level of violence last night was lower than the previous night,” according to the ministry, because of the “mobilization of domestic security forces across the country.” The legal team representing the teenager’s family hasn’t said if it believes race was a factor in the shooting, which has stirred long-simmering tensions between French police and young people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the suburbs of the capital and elsewhere.
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