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STORY: Public transport shut down across France early Friday, as the country braced for more violence after three fiery nights of rioting.
The government has said all options will be considered to stop the nationwide unrest.
On Friday night, France’s interior minister said 45,000 police officers were deployed – 5,000 more than the previous night – with 200 injured and hundreds arrested.
Clashes between protesters and police began in Nanterre on Tuesday – where a teenager was shot and killed by police at a traffic stop – and spread to other major cities, including Paris.
The 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent has been identified as Nahel.
His death was captured on video and has sparked long-standing complaints among urban communities about racism and police violence.
President Emmanuel Macron has so far ruled out declaring a state of emergency, but left a European Union summit in Brussels early to attend a second cabinet crisis meeting in two days.
He has urged parents to keep their children at home, adding that a third of those arrested were young, sometimes very young, people.
Macron also said, without details, that some unspecified public events in hard-hit regions would be cancelled.
France braces for fourth night of riots
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