Violent protests sweep France after police shoot 17-year-old

Violent protests have spread across France over the past week since the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old in Paris. (Photo: AP)

Rioting raged in cities for a fourth night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted. (Photo: AP)

France’s national soccer team — including international star Kylian Mbappe, an idol to many young people in the disadvantaged neighborhoods where the anger is rooted — pleaded for an end to the violence. (Source: AP)

The French interior ministry announced that 994 arrests around France have been made by early Saturday. (Photo: AP)

In the neighboring suburb Colombes, protesters overturned garbage bins and used them for makeshift barricades. (Photo: AP)

Macron zeroed in on social media platforms that have relayed dramatic images of vandalism and cars and buildings being torched. Singling out Snapchat and TikTok, he said they were being used to organize unrest and served as conduits for copycat violence. (Photo: AP)

The fatal shooting of Nahel, whose last name has not been made public, stirred up long-simmering tensions between police and young people in housing projects who struggle with poverty, unemployment and racial discrimination. (Photo: AP)

Hundreds of police and firefighters have been injured, including 79 overnight, but authorities have not released injury tallies for protesters. (Photo: AP)

While the number of overnight arrests was the highest yet, there were fewer fires, cars burned and police stations attacked around France than the previous night, according to the Interior Ministry. (Photo: AP)

The protests have revived the memories of 2005, when the deaths of two teenagers running from the police set off weeks of violent stir. (Photo: AP)