Barricades and lit fires filled the streets of some French cities once again last night as tensions mounted over the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old, reports ITV News.
Protesters clashed with police for a third night, leaving around 200 officers injured and 667 people under arrest.
No information was available about injuries among the rest of the population.
France's interior minister Gérald Darmanin tweeted Friday morning: "Our police, gendarmes and firefighters courageously faced rare violence."
The teenager identified by his first name, Nahel, was shot and killed by police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Wednesday.
The officer accused of killing him faces a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide. His lawyer, speaking to French TV channel BFMTV on Thursday, said the officer was sorry and "devastated."
"He doesn’t get up in the morning to kill people," the lawyer said of the officer, whose name has not been released as per French practice in criminal cases.
"He really didn’t want to kill."