Dozens of people armed with fireworks and metal rods besieged a police station outside Paris early Sunday, authorities said, prompting new calls for tougher government action after a string of attacks on France's security forces, reports FRANCE 24.
No one was injured in the latest attack.
Two police officers were on a cigarette break outside the station in Champigny-sur-Marne, around 12 kilometres (eight miles) east of Paris, when the assailants suddenly converged shortly before midnight.
The officers barely managed to barricade themselves inside when the crowd began attacking the entrance and several police vehicles, while others launched a barrage of powerful fireworks against the building.
No injuries were reported.
The city's mayor, Laurent Jeanne, told AFP the police might have been targeted in retaliation for a recent scooter accident allegedly caused by police, "which has not been proven."